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Marco Antonio
Marco Antonio

Reputation: 339

Git retrieve a list of all files modified in a branch

How can I get a list of all the files that were changed in a branch? I can't do a git-diff because the branch is already merged into master.

I would need a way to list all the commits in a branch and extract the path of the files, without duplicates.

If anybody has done a thing like this before it will be really appreciated,

a lot of thanks!

Upvotes: 8

Views: 1549

Answers (4)

Yep_It's_Me
Yep_It's_Me

Reputation: 4821

I came across this same problem and @Michael Burtin's solution worked for the most part. However, I wanted to add this to a script that will work on any branch, so it cannot contain the branch name. This is what I came up with:

git diff --name-only $(git merge-base master HEAD)

Which finds the closet ancestor of both master and the current branch, then diffs that commit with the current branch.

Upvotes: 2

ferrants
ferrants

Reputation: 631

Do a git log and figure out from which commit you want to know the differences. Let's say that you determine that the hash of the commit you want is aaaaaa. Then run:

git diff aaaaaa --stat

Upvotes: 2

Michaël Burtin
Michaël Burtin

Reputation: 66

If we consider your branch as BranchA wich was branched from master, you can do:

git diff --name-status `git merge-base BranchA master`..BranchA

This will give you the list of changed files in branch prefixed with status (M for modified, A for added, D for deleted).

Upvotes: 3

Ikke
Ikke

Reputation: 101251

This works if the branch is pointing to the merge commit:

git diff branch_name^..master --name-only

Upvotes: 2

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