show-changes-for-files-that-match-a-pattern.md

Show Changes For Files That Match A Pattern

The git show command allows you to view the changes associated with a reference, such as a commit sha (e.g. git show 86748aacf14e).

Consider a commit that has changed a bunch of JS files as well as two CSS files. If we run git show abcd1234, we will see all of the changes to each file which can result in quite a bit of noise. What if we only want to view the changes to the CSS files?

We can instruct the command to only show changes to files that match a pattern by tacking that pattern on to the end.

$ git show abcd1234 *.css

Alternatively, we could scope the output of the command to the files that live in a certain directory.

$ git show abcd1235 src/css