Show both staged & working tree in git diff?

Question

If I run git diff I see the changes in my working tree, and if I run git diff --staged (alternatively --cached) then I see the changes

Answer 1

The diffuse visual diff tool can do that: It will show three panes if some but not all changes are staged. In the case of conflicts, there will even be four panes.

Invoke it with

diffuse -m

in your Git working copy.

If you ask me, the best visual differ I've seen for a decade.

Answer 2

Is there a way with git diff to see all in one go?

There is, with Git 2.4.0+ (April 2015).

See commit 4055500 from Michael J Gruber mjg:

commit/status: show the index-worktree diff with -v -v (or -vv)

git commit and git status in long format show the diff between HEAD and the index when given -v. This allows previewing a commit to be made.

They also list tracked files with unstaged changes, but without a diff.

Introduce '-v -v' (or -vv) which shows the diff between the index and the worktree in addition to the HEAD index diff. This allows a review of unstaged changes which might be missing from the commit.

In the case of '-v -v' (or -vv), additional header lines

Changes to be committed:

and

Changes not staged for commit:

are inserted before the diffs, which are equal to those in the status part; the latter preceded by 50*- to make it stick out more.

In the OP's case, a simple git status -v -v (or git status -vv) will show both staged and unstaged diffs.

Answer 3

If you mean the changes between the working tree and your HEAD commit (i.e. both staged and unstaged changes together) this is just done with:

git diff HEAD