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Jean Paul Galea
Jean Paul Galea

Reputation: 1341

Git cat staged file to stdout

I have staged parts of a file in git like so

git add --patch ./file

I would like to output the contents of the staged file to stdout.

Note that the staged file and the file in the working directory are different since I only staged parts of the file.

Upvotes: 11

Views: 2068

Answers (1)

Mark Longair
Mark Longair

Reputation: 467023

If you want to just output the complete file in its staged version, you can use the syntax suggested by grawity in answer to a recent question:

git show :file

... or if you want to see the changes between HEAD and the index for that file (typically the changes you've just staged) you can use:

git diff --cached -- file

Upvotes: 13

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