Hi I have displayed the contents of the commits with the command you indicate, but they still look much the same: D:\gittest>git ls-tree -r --name-only 91ef45d C1.java C2.java C3.java C4.java C5.java D:\gittest>git ls-tree -r --name-only 8ec0c2f C1.java C2.java C3.java C4.java C5.java I thought that in the second one I would see only the changed file. -Angelo On Thu, 27 Oct 2022 at 19:28, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Angelo Borsotti <angelo.borsotti@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Then I displayed the contents of both commits, and seen that it is pretty much > > the same: > > > > D:\gittest>git show --pretty="" --name-only 91ef45d > > C2.java > > > > D:\gittest>git show --pretty="" --name-only 8ec0c2f > > C2.java > > You did not display the contents of these commits, though. For each > of these commits, you checked the _difference_ between it and its > parent. > > In the previous sequence > > >> > I have tested this in the following way: I have two files: C1.java and C2.java > >> > > >> > > git status > >> > On branch master > >> > nothing added to commit > >> > > ... edit C2.java > >> > > git status > >> > On branch master > >> > Changes not staged for commit: > >> > (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed) > >> > (use "git restore <file>..." to discard changes in working directory) > >> > modified: C2.java > >> > > git add C1.java > >> > > git add C2.java > >> > > git commit -m "commit2" > >> > D:\gittest>git commit -m "commit1" > >> > [master 91ef45d] commit1 > >> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > 91ef45d, relative to its parent (i.e. the previous state before the > commit was made), C2.java was modified. C1.java was not. > > So, what you saw > > > D:\gittest>git show --pretty="" --name-only 91ef45d > > C2.java > > is very much consistent with what you did. And the above does not > mean 91ef45d does not have C1.java. If you want to "display" the > contents of commit 91ef45d, you could > > $ git ls-tree -r --name-only 91ef45d > > which lists all the contents in commit 91ef45d > > or > > $ git diff --name-only $(git hash-object --stdin -t tree </dev/null) 91ef45d > > which compares all the contents in commit 91ef45d with a completely > empty tree. > > In them, you'd see both C1 and C2, among other things that you did > not modify in 91ef45d.
