How can I see what I am about to push with git?

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Is there a way to see what would be pushed if I did a git push command?

What I'm picturing is something like the "Files Changed" tab of Github's "pull request" feature. When I issue a pull request, I can look and see what will be pulled in if they accept my pull request: github example of aggregate changes

Command line is OK, but I'd prefer some sort of GUI (like the screenshot above).

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14 Answers
  1. If you have write permissions on remote 
git push --dry-run
  1. If you do not have write permissions on remote 
git diff --stat HEAD remote/branch
user_19461960

After git commit -m "{your commit message}", you will get a commit hash before the push. So you can see what you are about to push with git by running the following command:

git diff origin/{your_branch_name} commit hash

e.g: git diff origin/master c0e06d2

user_133974900

Just to add my two cents... I wanted to implement this when running jobs in a gitlab pipeline on a gitlab runner. The best way to do this was to use this script:

git diff --name-only $CI_COMMIT_BEFORE_SHA $CI_COMMIT_SHA

Also in my case I wanted to filter files by extension, to achieve this I used:

git diff --name-only $CI_COMMIT_BEFORE_SHA $CI_COMMIT_SHA '*.py'

After that you can for example forward this list somewhere else, a linter perhaps ;)

Hope this will help someone.

user_41249330

Just wanted to add for PyCharm users: You can right-click on the file, -> Git -> Compare with branch

And then you can choose master (or any other)

user_119559700
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