How to make git-diff and git log ignore new and deleted files?

Question

Sometimes there\'s a couple of changed files together with some new, deleted and/or renamed files. When doing git diff or git-log I\'d like to omit the

Answer 1

The --diff-filter option works with both diff and log.

I use --diff-filter=M a lot which restricts diff outputs to only content modifications.

To detect renames and copies and use these in the diff output, you can use -M and -C respectively, together with the R and C options to --diff-filter.