Git show list of files modified (but not yet committed) in the last X hours

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I'm trying to see which of all the files I've modified but not yet committed, were modified in the last say 2 hours.

git status shows me the list of all the modified files, but I only want to see those modified recently.

I've found this question Git show files that were changed in the last 2 days but it seems to work for committed files only.

Can this be done?

Schwern · Accepted Answer · 2018-09-24T18:33:19.757

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Git does not store when a file was modified, only when it was committed. Instead, check the file's modification time on your filesystem using find.

find . -not -mmin +120 -not -path './.git/*'

-not -mmin +120 looks for files which have NOT been changed at least 120 minutes ago. -not -path './.git/*' ignores the .git directory.

This will check all files in the directory. If you just want to check the ones Git knows about, filter the list from git ls-files -m on their modification times using xargs and find.

git ls-files -m | xargs -I file find file -not -mmin +120

Or with xargs and bash.

git ls-files -m | xargs -I file bash -c '(( $(date +%s) - $(stat --printf='%Y' file) < 7200 )) && echo file'

edited Sep 24 '18 at 18:33

answered Sep 24 '18 at 16:33

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Thanks Schwern. Could you show how to use the `git ls-files` in combination with the `find` command? Right now the latter shows modified images and `*.pyc` files which I am not interested in. – Gabriel Sep 24 '18 at 16:59
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The question is about **modified** files. `git ls-files -m` – phd Sep 24 '18 at 18:27
@phd Thanks, fixed. – Schwern Sep 24 '18 at 18:33
@phd Thank you. – Schwern Sep 24 '18 at 18:53

Git show list of files modified (but not yet committed) in the last X hours

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