How to Diff between local uncommitted changes and origin

Question

Let\'s say I cloned a repository and started modifying files. I know that if I have local uncommitted changes, I can do a diff as follows git diff test.txt and it w

Answer 1

I know it's not an answer to the exact question asked, but I found this question looking to diff a file in a branch and a local uncommitted file and I figured I would share

Syntax:

git diff :./ -- 

Examples:

git diff origin/master:./ -- README.md
git diff HEAD^:./ -- README.md
git diff stash@{0}:./ -- README.md
git diff 1A2B3C4D:./ -- README.md

(Thanks Eric Boehs for a way to not have to type the filename twice)