Use git log
to view the commit history. Each commit has an associated revision specifier that is a hash key (e.g. 14b8d0982044b0c49f7a855e396206ee65c0e787
and b410ad4619d296f9d37f0db3d0ff5b9066838b39
). To view the difference between two different commits, use git diff
with the first few characters of the revision specifiers of both commits, like so:
# diff between commits 14b8... and b410...
git diff 14b8..b410
# only include diff of specified files
git diff 14b8..b410 path/to/file/a path/to/file/b
If you want to get an overview over all the differences that happened from commit to commit, use git log
or git whatchanged
with the patch option:
# include patch displays in the commit history
git log -p
git whatchanged -p
# only get history of those commits that touch specified paths
git log path/a path/b
git whatchanged path/c path/d