Re: workflow question

[Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>]

Julian Phillips, Tue, Jul 24, 2007 18:35:15 +0200:
> On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Patrick Doyle wrote:
> 
> >>>  ... and I don't commit until I've completed
> >>>  the particular feature I'm working on, I can get a fairly good idea of
> >>>  where I am and what I was doing last (which might be 5-7 days ago,
> >>>  given high priority interrupts on other projects, summer vacations,
> >>>  etc...) just by running a "git status".  I see that there are 7 new
> >>>  files, and 2 modified files.  I know that, when I fork my branch, I
> >>>  can use "git diff master" to see what's different between my branch
> >>>  and the master, but then I get the diff of all of the changes as well,
> >>>  which is too much information.  "git diff --name-only" and "git diff
> >>>  --summary" are closer, but I can't tell what's been added vs. what's
> >>>  been changed.  Any suggestions?
> >>
> >> "git log -p ..master", or even simpler "gitk ..master"
> >I was hoping for something less verbose than a diff or a patch file --
> >something that just listed what has changed -- I'll have to
> >investigate whether your "my_status()" macro provides the information
> >for which I was looking -- thanks for the pointer.
> 
> "git log --stat ..master" perhaps?
> 

yep. Or just use the same options as with diff:

    $ git log -r --name-status -M -C ..master