Showing staged and unstaged changes in Git
In this article, we will see how to show the changes we have staged for the next commit and the changes we have not yet staged. There are two commands we can run in Git to show the staged changes.
Let's start with the basics.
Use git statusto display changes
We run git statusthe command to display the status of our working directory. This command displays the staged and untracked files in our working directory.
We use the command with --verbosethe -d flag git statusto display the staging files. --verboseThe options are -vthe same as for -d.
$ git status -v
As shown above, -vthe options show staged files and file content changes.
Use git diffto display changes
We use git diffthe command to show the changes between the staging area and the working directory. You can run the command with --cachedthe - flag git diffto show HEADthe changes between the staging area and .
git diff --cached
We can run the command with --name-only --cachedthe -d flag git diffto display only the file names.
$ git diff --name-only --cached
README.md
git diff --cachedgit diff --stagedSynonymous with command.
We can run the command with HEADto git diffshow both staged and unstaged changes. Let's look at an example.
We will run git statusthe command to check the status of our working directory.
As shown above, we have one modified README.mdfile ready to commit and one modified downloadpdf.phpfile not yet ready to commit. You can view the changes to these two files in the following way.
git diff HEAD
You use git statusthe -d command to show staged and unstaged changes. Just -vvadd the -d flag to the command as shown below.
$ git status -vv
The benefit of using the above command is that it tells you which file is staged and which files are not staged for commit.
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