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Say you have a folder within a git repo that's excluded with a ignore file a.txt b.txt

The files are regenerated by an application on the fly and won't ever be included to the repo. I would like to diff the text between a.txt and b.txt using the git command line for windows. I just have installed git, and I prefer to keep it like that Is there a command that performs this task?

Thank you

isherwood
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You can diff two files with git style using

git diff --no-index a.txt b.txt

No matter where those files are. You don’t even need any repository, just git installed.

If you are using git bash on Windows, you can also use the regular diff command like

diff a.txt b.txt

Or 

diff -u a.txt b.txt
Manuel Schmidt
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