How to git diff without typing the whole path

Question

I\'m using the github windows shell and I\'ll do the following

git status

see a list of modified files and want to remind myself what\'s ch

Answer 1

most terminals (e.g. console2 for windows) have auto-completion.

start typing and press tab

usually git can auto-complete after 2 characters. like:

gi tab di tab

will give you git diff. if your folders are not named similarly than it might auto-complete after a single character. like if your project root had three files:

• readme
• /source/
• /bin/

you could simply type r, s, or b then tab to auto-type any of those file names.

fyi, auto complete works for terminal and git commands, file and directory names, branch and tag names, but unfortunately not for commit ids.

Answer 2

If you want to review all changes, you can simply use git diff. It will not list new files, though.

To selectively look at changes, I would recommend to use a GUI, e.g., git gui or gitk.

Answer 3

git diff -- **/FooBar.aspx

In general * stands for any part of a filename while ** stands for any subpath. E.g. git diff -- **/main/**/*.aspx will diff only aspx files that are residing somewhere in a subdirectory of main or main itself. This applies to other commands that accept paths, like commit and add.

Answer 4

I use Console2 to host bash.

With this I'm able to use Ctrl + Click and Drag to highlight text which can then be copied to the clipboard and pasted into further command lines.

I use this to copy file paths.

This enabled me to type git diff [Ctrl+V] and get the command line I want.