How to see which files were changed in last commit

Question

In this commit message, it says that 2 files have been changed.

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 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

This is a little surprising for me. I thought I'd only staged one file to be changed. Now, I'd like to see which files have been changed and how. What is the way to do this?

Possible duplicate of [How to have git log show filenames like svn log -v](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1230084/how-to-have-git-log-show-filenames-like-svn-log-v) — Andrejs Cainikovs, Apr 16 '18 at 10:29
Possible duplicate of [How to list all the files in a commit?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/424071/how-to-list-all-the-files-in-a-commit) — phd, Apr 16 '18 at 11:28
@Lix , @Ron neither of your comments address this, `since` the last commit and `in` the last commit are two different things.. — Tommy, Jul 18 '23 at 15:03

score 195 · Answer 1 · edited Jul 18 '23 at 14:44

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Get all changed files in the last commit

git diff --name-only HEAD HEAD~1

edited Jul 18 '23 at 14:44

Tommy

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answered Apr 13 '19 at 12:39

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This should be the accepted answer, thank you @Robin He! – Jeehut May 16 '21 at 21:33
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OP: "Now, I'd like to see which files have been changed **and how**" ...so no, this answer is only adressing half of what's asked for. – Romain Valeri Jun 29 '21 at 08:18
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You can use `^` (parent commit) operator too: `git diff --name-only HEAD HEAD^`. – Caco Aug 19 '21 at 13:31
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You can try `git show --oneline --name-only --pretty='' HEAD` – liuliang Feb 22 '22 at 07:00
`git show --name-only` is a quick way to "see which files were changed in last commit". – Jason Doucette Aug 11 '23 at 17:49

Nitin Bisht · Accepted Answer · 2020-08-11T17:06:21.357

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You can try git log --stat

Here --stat will display the number of insertions and deletions to each file altered by each commit.

Example: Below commit added 67 lines to the Demo.java file and removed 38 lines:

commit f2a238924456ca1d4947662928218a06d39068c3
Author: X <X@example.com>
Date: Fri May 21 15:17:28 2020 -0500
Add a new feature
Demo.java | 105 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
1 file changed, 67 insertion(+), 38 deletions(-)

edited Aug 11 '20 at 17:06

answered Apr 16 '18 at 10:00

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This command will show only the last commit stats: `git log --stat -1` – Tahmidur Rahman Apr 07 '21 at 05:43
`git log -1 --pretty=%H` only shows the commit hash – Henrique Brisola Nov 17 '22 at 18:58

Andrejs Cainikovs · Answer 3 · 2023-03-20T10:22:20.090

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You can do this in a number of ways. This is what I came up with without looking into docs.

$ git log -1 --name-only

commit 3c60430b752bca26bd3c80604df87ffb2ae358 (HEAD -> master, origin/master, origin/HEAD)
Author: Name Surname <name.surname@email.com>
Date:   Mon Apr 2 18:17:25 2018 +0200

    Example commit

.gitignore
README
src/main.c

Or:

$ git log -1 --name-only --oneline

commit 3c60430 (HEAD -> master, origin/master, origin/HEAD) Example commit
.gitignore
README
src/main.c

Or:

$ git log -1 --stat --oneline

commit 3c60430 (HEAD -> master, origin/master, origin/HEAD) Example commit
.gitignore |  2 ++
README     |  8 ++++++++
src/main.c | 12 ++++++++++++
3 files changed, 22 insertions(+)

Or (thanks to Bencho Naut):

$ git log -1 --name-only --pretty=''

.gitignore
README
src/main.c

edited Mar 20 '23 at 10:22

answered Apr 16 '18 at 10:16

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right to the point, simple command, thank you – ervinbosenbacher Nov 12 '21 at 12:56
The last command you show `git log -1 --stat --oneline` fits best to my needs, since it also displays the commit hash, list of files ... and also I can show more commits: `git log -3 --stat --oneline` – Pathros Aug 05 '22 at 15:18
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Oh thanks my dear `git log -1 --oneline --name-only --pretty='' HEAD` – Bencho Naut Mar 20 '23 at 03:05

sprutex · Answer 4 · 2020-02-29T21:04:31.287

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In addition to Nitin Bisht's answer you can use the following:

git log -1 --stat --oneline

It will show condensed information on which files were changed in last commit. Naturally, instead of "-1" there can by any number of commits specified to show files changed in last "-n" commits.

Also you can skip merged commits passing "--no-merges" flag:

git log -1 --stat --oneline --no-merges

edited Feb 29 '20 at 21:04

answered Feb 29 '20 at 20:54

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score 5 · Answer 5 · answered Apr 16 '18 at 09:02

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git log  // this will give you the hash-code 
git show hash-code

answered Apr 16 '18 at 09:02

score 5 · Answer 6 · answered Apr 16 '18 at 09:03

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git diff-tree --no-commit-id --name-only <commit_hash>

answered Apr 16 '18 at 09:03

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This command only list the top directory which were changed in that commit – yardstick17 Jan 16 '20 at 15:53
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adding -r after diff-tree should fix that – I_ATE_YOUR_WORK_FILES Apr 23 '20 at 09:50

score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Feb 17 '23 at 11:30

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This is the preferred one for me

git show --name-status --pretty=""

Or if I only want the names of the files:

git show --name-only --pretty=""

Other things like --stat are also available with git show.

answered Feb 17 '23 at 11:30

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score 0 · Answer 8 · answered Aug 11 '23 at 17:51

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git show --name-only

This is simplest form. It is the similar to git show (which shows the diff of the last commit), except it shows the filenames that were changed, instead of the diff.

answered Aug 11 '23 at 17:51

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