git diff on a bare repo

Question

I wanna see how much a repo changed in the last month on gitlab server side

cd /path/to/my/bare/repo.git/
git --git-dir . diff --shortstat \"@{1 month ago}\"
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Answer 1

I found this question because I was getting fatal: This operation must be run in a work tree

If you are getting the error (in your bare repo):

[ec2-user@xxxxx git]$ git diff 81dcb182e4d16b6894b69a5b31133b8d8ff6c5e2
fatal: This operation must be run in a work tree

Ensure you are providing two commit hashes to diff.(as HEAD is a symbolic ref)

[ec2-user@xxxxx git]$ git diff  

Eg.

[ec2-user@xxxxx git]$ git diff 11dcb182e4d16b6894b69a5b31133b8d8ff6c5ex 81dcb182e4d16b6894b69a5b31133b8d8ff6c5e2