Git - How can I list all files changed on the master branch between two times?

Question

I'd like to find out all the files that have been modified on the master branch (or any one branch for that matter) between two dates.

git diff --name-only SHA1 SHA2

but I don't know, a priori, what the SHA's are between today and yesterday. Especially when there can be more than one commit on a day.

To be more precise, I would like to know the list of files changed on the master git repo between Today at 12:01 AM and yesterday at 12:01 AM.

Is this possible? I used to be able to do this in CVS with cvs diff -D "1 days ago".

this can't be correct information as you may have merges which happened with in this period, but commits was some time ago. — kofemann, Feb 13 '13 at 21:48
So a merge would not count a file to be listed when doing `git diff`? — EMiller, Feb 13 '13 at 21:49

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 13 '13 at 21:46

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git has a facility for using the reflog to get the position a name was at an arbitrary amount of time ago.

git diff --name-only master@{1 day ago} master

This will give you the difference between where master was exactly one day prior to now, and where master is now.

answered Feb 13 '13 at 21:46

Borealid

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Had to add quotes around `1 day ago` but worked! Thanks. – EMiller Feb 15 '13 at 21:25
That gives me `fatal: ambiguous argument 'master@': unknown revision or path not in the working tree.` – jbyrd Dec 08 '21 at 17:05

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