How to show uncommitted changes in Git and some Git diffs in detail

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How do I show uncommitted changes in Git?

I STFW'ed, and these commands are not working:

teyan@TEYAN-THINK MINGW64 /d/nano/repos/PSTools/psservice (teyan/psservice)
$ git status
On branch teyan/psservice
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/teyan/psservice'.
Changes to be committed:
  (use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage)

        modified:   psservice.c
        modified:   psservice.vcxproj.filters


teyan@TEYAN-THINK MINGW64 /d/nano/repos/PSTools/psservice (teyan/psservice)
$ git diff

teyan@TEYAN-THINK MINGW64 /d/nano/repos/PSTools/psservice (teyan/psservice)
$ git diff master
fatal: ambiguous argument 'master': unknown revision or path not in the working tree.
Use '--' to separate paths from revisions, like this:
'git <command> [<revision>...] -- [<file>...]'
git-diff git
4 Answers

For me, the only thing which worked is

git diff HEAD

including the staged files, git diff --cached only shows staged files.

user_8009650

I had a situation of git status showing changes, but git diff printing nothing, although there were changes in several lines. However:

$ git diff data.txt > myfile
$ cat myfile
<prints diff>

Git 2.20.1 on raspbian. Other commands like git checkout, git pull are printing to stdout without problems.

user_28113060
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