How do I list all the files for a commit in git

Question

I need to write a script that retrieves all files that were committed for a given SHA1. I have difficulty getting a nice formatted list of all files that were part of the commit.

I have tried: git show a303aa90779efdd2f6b9d90693e2cbbbe4613c1d

Although listing the files it also includes additional diff information that I don't need. I am hoping there is a simple git command that will provide such a list without me having to parse it from the above command.

Answer 1

I'll just assume that gitk is not desired for this. In that case, try git show --name-only <sha>.

Answer 2

This should get you a little closer to your goal.

$ git show --pretty="format:" --name-only bd61ad98

index.html
javascript/application.js
javascript/ie6.js

The --pretty argument specifies an empty format string to avoid the cruft at the beginning. The --name-only argument shows only the file names that were affected (Thanks Hank).

Answer 3

A combination of "git show --stat" (thanks Ryan) and a couple of sed commands should trim the data down for you:

git show --stat <SHA1> | sed -n "/ [\w]\*|/p" | sed "s/|.\*$//"

That will produce just the list of modified files.

Answer 4

$ git log 88ee8^..88ee8 --name-only --pretty="format:"

Answer 5

If you want to get list of changed files:

git diff-tree --name-only -r <commit-ish>

You would get SHA1 of on first line, though.

If you want to get list of all files in a commit, you can use

git ls-tree --name-only -r <commit-ish>

Answer 6

I like this:

git diff --name-status <SHA1> <SHA1>^

Answer 7

I use this to get list of modified files between two changesets:

git diff --name-status <SHA1> <SHA2> | cut -f2

Answer 8

Recently I needed to list all changed files between two commits. So I used this (also *nix specific) command

git show --pretty="format:" --name-only START_COMMIT..END_COMMIT | sort | uniq

Hope this helps someone... don't badge me with "Necromancer" though :)