Show list of all files changed/added/removed in the last x commits

Question

I want to list all files changed in the recent X commits.

I tried:

git log --name-status -10

But it also logs additional information like commit id, author, date etc. I only need the filename. Is there a command to achieve this?

EDIT:

This edit should explain why my question is not a duplicate of "How to list only the file names that changed between two commits?" as the user phd claims.

I don't think that I have to explain it, it should be obvious that these are two entirely different questions. I asked how to create a list of the last x commits, while the "duplicate" asks about a list of commits between commit A and B.

Answer 1

I prefer using git diff here:

git diff --name-only HEAD~10.. --

On one of the tags in the Python repo, this produced:

$ git diff --name-only HEAD~10.. --
Doc/library/http.client.rst
Doc/library/tkinter.rst
Include/patchlevel.h
Lib/http/client.py
Lib/ssl.py
Lib/test/libregrtest/setup.py
Lib/test/test_httplib.py
Lib/test/test_ssl.py
Lib/test/test_syntax.py
Mac/BuildScript/resources/ReadMe.rtf
Mac/BuildScript/resources/Welcome.rtf
Misc/NEWS.d/3.7.4.rst
Misc/NEWS.d/3.7.4rc1.rst
Misc/NEWS.d/3.7.4rc2.rst
Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-06-22-12-45-20.bpo-24214.hIiHeD.rst
Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-02-03-19-13-08.bpo-32627.b68f64.rst
Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-27-13-27-02.bpo-37428._wcwUd.rst
Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-27-20-33-50.bpo-37437.du39_A.rst
Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2019-06-18-09-05-08.bpo-35360.tdqSmo.rst
Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2019-06-28-08-09-08.bpo-37369.1iVpxq.rst
Modules/expat/expat_external.h
Python/compile.c
Python/peephole.c
README.rst
configure
configure.ac

If you want the status, you can use the --name-status option with diff too:

git diff --name-status HEAD~10.. --

Here the example above with the --name-status option:

$ git diff --name-only HEAD~10.. --
M   Doc/library/http.client.rst
M   Doc/library/tkinter.rst
M   Include/patchlevel.h
M   Lib/http/client.py
M   Lib/ssl.py
M   Lib/test/libregrtest/setup.py
M   Lib/test/test_httplib.py
M   Lib/test/test_ssl.py
M   Lib/test/test_syntax.py
M   Mac/BuildScript/resources/ReadMe.rtf
M   Mac/BuildScript/resources/Welcome.rtf
A   Misc/NEWS.d/3.7.4.rst
M   Misc/NEWS.d/3.7.4rc1.rst
A   Misc/NEWS.d/3.7.4rc2.rst
D   Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-06-22-12-45-20.bpo-24214.hIiHeD.rst
D   Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-02-03-19-13-08.bpo-32627.b68f64.rst
D   Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-27-13-27-02.bpo-37428._wcwUd.rst
D   Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-06-27-20-33-50.bpo-37437.du39_A.rst
D   Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2019-06-18-09-05-08.bpo-35360.tdqSmo.rst
D   Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2019-06-28-08-09-08.bpo-37369.1iVpxq.rst
M   Modules/expat/expat_external.h
M   Python/compile.c
M   Python/peephole.c
M   README.rst
M   configure
M   configure.ac

Personally, I prefer using --stat to see some statistics about the changes, if it's meant to be consumed by me versus a script:

git diff --stat HEAD~10.. --

Here's the same example above with --stat:

$ git diff --stat HEAD~10.. --
 Doc/library/http.client.rst                        |  5 ++
 Doc/library/tkinter.rst                            |  4 +-
 Include/patchlevel.h                               |  6 +-
 Lib/http/client.py                                 |  7 ++
 Lib/ssl.py                                         | 29 ++++---
 Lib/test/libregrtest/setup.py                      | 16 ----
 Lib/test/test_httplib.py                           | 18 +++++
 Lib/test/test_ssl.py                               |  9 ++-
 Lib/test/test_syntax.py                            | 14 ----
 Mac/BuildScript/resources/ReadMe.rtf               |  8 +-
 Mac/BuildScript/resources/Welcome.rtf              |  4 +-
 Misc/NEWS.d/3.7.4.rst                              | 19 +++++
 Misc/NEWS.d/3.7.4rc1.rst                           |  2 +-
 Misc/NEWS.d/3.7.4rc2.rst                           | 90 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 .../2019-06-22-12-45-20.bpo-24214.hIiHeD.rst       |  2 -
 .../2019-02-03-19-13-08.bpo-32627.b68f64.rst       |  1 -
 .../2019-06-27-13-27-02.bpo-37428._wcwUd.rst       |  4 -
 .../2019-06-27-20-33-50.bpo-37437.du39_A.rst       |  1 -
 .../2019-06-18-09-05-08.bpo-35360.tdqSmo.rst       |  1 -
 .../2019-06-28-08-09-08.bpo-37369.1iVpxq.rst       |  1 -
 Modules/expat/expat_external.h                     |  4 +
 Python/compile.c                                   |  9 ++-
 Python/peephole.c                                  | 15 +---
 README.rst                                         |  4 +-
 configure                                          |  6 ++
 configure.ac                                       |  6 ++
 26 files changed, 209 insertions(+), 76 deletions(-)

(note: the output will adjust width based on the terminal in this last version)

Answer 2

The classic way would be to

git log --pretty=format:"" --name-only -10 | sort -u

| sort -u helps with sorting and getting rid of doubles, while --name-only outputs the file list without status letters.

Answer 3

I solved it... by adding --oneline.

git log --name-status --oneline -10