Git cat staged file to stdout

Question

I have staged parts of a file in git like so

git add --patch ./file

I would like to output the contents of the staged file to stdout.

Note that the staged file and the file in the working directory are different since I only staged parts of the file.

This is a possible duplicate of this recent question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5153199/git-show-content-of-file-as-it-will-look-like-after-committing — Mark Longair, Mar 03 '11 at 10:55
thanks for pointing me in the right direction. sorry about the duplicate! — Jean Paul Galea, Mar 03 '11 at 10:58

score 10 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:34

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If you want to just output the complete file in its staged version, you can use the syntax suggested by grawity in answer to a recent question:

git show :file

... or if you want to see the changes between HEAD and the index for that file (typically the changes you've just staged) you can use:

git diff --cached -- file

edited May 23 '17 at 12:34

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answered Mar 03 '11 at 11:47

Mark Longair

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I'm not having luck with `git show :file` if the file has not been previously committed. I had to fall back to `git ls-files -s ` and then `git cat-file -p `. – Christopher King Sep 14 '16 at 20:38

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