git: show all files changed between two commits

Question

A riff on git: show all changed files between two commits: I want a listing of all files that have been changed between two commits, even if they are now the same (ie, changed a

Answer 1

If just want to see the file names where commit b is chronologically after a:

git diff ... --name-only # b is after a in time

If you want to see all the file names and what was changed from commit a to commit b then drop the last argument.

git diff ... # shows file names and what changed in each file

An example of are the commit id's like 675ee6860d2c273bcc6c6a0536634a107e2a3d9f. Generally the first 8-10 digits will work on most projects, but may need more if the project has oodles of commits. Typically I use the output of the id from git log --oneline.

When you get a difference of a...b and b is later than a in time it's easy to see what was changed in each file chronologically.