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Say I do

git add foo.txt

Now, foo's changes are in the index (I'm assuming git was already tracking that file). Now, when I do git diff, I can't see the changes in foo by doing

git diff

Are there some extra things that git diff wants before it shows me those changes?

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  • To show unstaged changes only:
git diff
  • To show the staged/cached changes only:
git diff --cached
  • To show both cached and uncached changes, compare the whole working tree to the named commit (HEAD):
git diff HEAD
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  • ooh. Thanks! Why so many words for 1 concept! Let me see if I got this straight: staged (or cached) changes = changes that live in the index.
    – allyourcode
    Commented Jul 31, 2010 at 9:27
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    I came here looking for a way to see both the cached and uncached changes together, so +1 for mentioning git diff HEAD.
    – undefined
    Commented Mar 1, 2018 at 17:48

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