Github commit, diff does not show changes

Question

I recently made a commit to a repo on github and now when I want to see the differences, for one of the files all I get is:

1273 additions, 678 deletions not shown

What is the cause of this? How can I see the differences?

What commands are you using and what would you like to accomplish? — rtn, Mar 21 '12 at 09:26
i am not using any commands, but the web interface itself. i want to see what the modifications to the file are — , Mar 21 '12 at 09:43
possible duplicate of [Large github commit diff not shown](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9702795/large-github-commit-diff-not-shown) — rtn, Mar 21 '12 at 11:41
very helpful deleting everything. i still don`t know what causes this and what i can do to prevent it in the future. sarcastic thanks! — , Mar 21 '12 at 12:19

score 6 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 18 '13 at 19:11

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Github doesn't show large diffs probably because it is quite js-intensive and will likely freeze your browser. Solution would be to not rely on github for browsing diffs which you can see in any git-gui you have

e.g. tig is pretty handy.

$ tig commithash

edited Apr 18 '13 at 19:11

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answered Mar 21 '12 at 18:54

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 21 '12 at 13:48

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You can check the diff from your local machine if GitHub cannot show it to you

 $ git show the-commit-id path/to/the/file

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 05 '20 at 09:03

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I was looking for that answer myself, github fails to show me large diffs, so the solution was GitHub Desktop.

answered Jun 05 '20 at 09:03

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