To update remote-tracking branches, you need to type git fetch first and then: You can git branch -a to list all branches (local and remote) and then choose the branch name from the list (just remove remotes/ from the remote branch name. Example: git diff main origin/main (where “main” is the local main branch and “origin/main” is a remote, namely the origin and … Read more
Man pages for diff suggest no solution for colorization from within itself. Please consider using colordiff. It’s a wrapper around diff that produces the same output as diff, except that it augments the output using colored syntax highlighting to increase readability: or just: Installation: Ubuntu/Debian: sudo apt-get install colordiff OS X: brew install colordiff or port install colordiff
Man pages for diff suggest no solution for colorization from within itself. Please consider using colordiff. It’s a wrapper around diff that produces the same output as diff, except that it augments the output using colored syntax highlighting to increase readability: or just: Installation: Ubuntu/Debian: sudo apt-get install colordiff OS X: brew install colordiff or port install colordiff
For Windows you can use this solution. Here’s the right way to do it, without the external downloads. It looks like a lot at first, but once you’ve done it, it’s very easy.It works in all Windows versions from 7 back to 95. For our example assume that you’re comparing two directories named ‘A’ and ‘B’. … Read more
you can simply pass the 2 commits to git diff like :
By default, patch ignores the directory portion of the target filename; it’s just looking for “httpd.conf” in your current working directory. If you want it to use the full path, you have to explicitly ask it to do so with the -p option: patch -p 0 < httpd.patch The number after -p is how many levels to remove from the filename … Read more
1277 Try: Or alternatively, with the short flags -qr: If you also want to see differences for files that may not exist in either directory:
Use the git diff branch branch filename syntax: put the two names of your branches and optionally use the — filename option to specify one file! Good luck, let me know if you have issues.