See Which Files Changed in git

git log is great to see a detailed diff, but what if you only want to see the files that were changed?

There's git whatchanged, but it's essentially deprecated, and git docs recommend using git log instead:

% git whatchanged
commit 9925b8ec8fc8024544a36c71e210a23192a63bf4 (HEAD -> main, origin/main, origin/HEAD)
Author: Tony Yunker <tony.yunker@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri Oct 20 15:07:09 2023 -0500

    ruby - abbreviated assignment operators

:100644 100644 7d41153 7449733 M    README.md
:000000 100644 0000000 5a432d1 A    ruby/rubys_abbreviated_assignment_operators.md

So then we can use git log --name-only to see the names of the files that were changed.

% git log --name-only
commit 9925b8ec8fc8024544a36c71e210a23192a63bf4 (HEAD -> main, origin/main, origin/HEAD)
Author: Tony Yunker <tony.yunker@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri Oct 20 15:07:09 2023 -0500

    ruby - abbreviated assignment operators

README.md
ruby/rubys_abbreviated_assignment_operators.md

But that won't tell us if they were updates or adds or whatnot. For that, we can use git log --name-status

% git log --name-status
commit 9925b8ec8fc8024544a36c71e210a23192a63bf4 (HEAD -> main, origin/main, origin/HEAD)
Author: Tony Yunker <tony.yunker@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri Oct 20 15:07:09 2023 -0500

    ruby - abbreviated assignment operators

M   README.md
A   ruby/rubys_abbreviated_assignment_operators.md

These flags can be used on git show too!

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