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

If you want to compare files visually you can use:

git difftool

It will start your diff app automatically for each changed file.

PS: If you did not set a diff app, you can do it like in the example below(I use Winmerge):

git config --global merge.tool winmerge
git config --replace --global mergetool.winmerge.cmd "\"C:\Program Files (x86)\WinMerge\WinMergeU.exe\" -e -u -dl \"Base\" -dr \"Mine\" \"$LOCAL\" \"$REMOTE\" \"$MERGED\""
git config --global mergetool.prompt false