How can I show what a commit did?
GitGit Problem Overview
A stupid way I know is:
git diff commit-number1 commit-number2
Is there a better way?
I mean, I want to know the commit1 itself. I don't want to add the commit2 before it as a parameter.
Git Solutions
Solution 1 - Git
git show <commit-id>
Solution 2 - Git
Does
$ git log -p
do what you need?
Check out the http://git-scm.com/book/en/Git-Basics-Viewing-the-Commit-History">chapter on Git Log in the Git Community Book for more examples. (Or look at the http://git-scm.com/docs/git-log">the documentation.)
Update: As others (https://stackoverflow.com/users/46058/jakub-narebski">Jakub</a> and https://stackoverflow.com/users/43582/bombe">Bombe</a>;) already pointed out: although the above works, http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-show.html">git show is actually the command that is intended to do exactly what was asked for.
Solution 3 - Git
TL;DR
git show <commit>
Show
To show what a commit did with stats:
git show <commit> --stat
Log
To show commit log with differences introduced for each commit in a range:
git log -p <commit1> <commit2>
What is <commit>?
Each commit has a unique id we reference here as <commit>. The unique id is an SHA-1 hash – a checksum of the content you’re storing plus a header. #TMI
If you don't know your <commit>:
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git logto view the commit history -
Find the commit you care about.
Solution 4 - Git
I found out that git show <commit> --stat is the best out of all here.
It gives you a brief summary of the commit and what files you added and modified without giving you whole bunch of stuff, especially if you changed a lot files.
Solution 5 - Git
This is one way I know of. With git, there always seems to be more than one way to do it.
git log -p commit1 commit2
Solution 6 - Git
The answers by Bomber and Jakub (thanks!) are correct and work for me in different situations.
For a quick glance at what was in the commit, I use
git show <replace this with your commit-id>
But I like to view a graphical diff when studying something in detail and have set up a "P4diff" as my Git diff. I then use
git diff <replace this with your commit-id>^!