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Reputation: 5101

Git - comparing to repository throw error

I am trying to have the diff between my local repo with git repo but I am getting error instead of getting difference.

here is the command i run : git diff origin/color-palette/start.txt start.txt basically i am trying to get the different between both start.txt file here.

the error i am getting is :

PS C:\Tutorials\try\color-palette> git diff origin/color-palette/start.txt start
.txt
fatal: ambiguous argument 'origin/color-palette/start.txt': unknown revision or
path not in the working tree.
Use '--' to separate paths from revisions, like this:
'git <command> [<revision>...] -- [<file>...]'
PS C:\Tutorials\try\color-palette>

What is wrong here? and how to exactly get diff between local and remote?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 408

Answers (1)

VonC
VonC

Reputation: 1324447

The syntax for git diff is:

git diff remotename/branchname:remote/path/afile.txt local/path/afile.txt

The second local/path/afile.txt is a shortcut for HEAD:local/path/afile.txt

In your case:

git diff origin:start.txt start.txt

No need for color-palette here, since it might be the root folder of your local repo.

Not that if you are comparing with a remote, it is generally a good idea to update the local image of that remote in your repo first:

git fetch

Then you can do a git diff, which works with what is in your local .git/remotes/origin: it won't make an actual query to the remote repo.

Upvotes: 1

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