How to list only the names of files that changed between two commits

git diff --name-only SHA1 SHA2

where you only need to include enough of the SHA hash to identify the commits. You can also do, for example

git diff --name-only HEAD~10 HEAD~5

to see the differences between the tenth latest commit and the fifth latest (or so).

git diff --name-status [SHA1 [SHA2]]

is like --name-only, except you get a simple prefix telling you what happened to the file (modified, deleted, added...)

git log --name-status --oneline [SHA1..SHA2]

is similar, but commits are listed after the commit message, so you can see when a file was changed.

• if you're interested in just what happened to certain files/folders you can append -- <filename> [<filename>...] to the git log version.

• if you want to see what happened for a single commit, call it SHA1, then do
  git log --name-status --oneline [SHA1^..SHA1]

File status flags:

It seems that no one has mentioned the switch --stat:

$ git diff --stat HEAD~5 HEAD .../java/org/apache/calcite/rex/RexSimplify.java   | 50 +++++++++++++++++----- .../apache/calcite/sql/fun/SqlTrimFunction.java    |  2 +- .../apache/calcite/sql2rel/SqlToRelConverter.java  | 16 +++++++ .../org/apache/calcite/util/SaffronProperties.java | 19 ++++---- .../org/apache/calcite/test/RexProgramTest.java    | 24 +++++++++++ .../apache/calcite/test/SqlToRelConverterTest.java |  8 ++++ .../apache/calcite/test/SqlToRelConverterTest.xml  | 15 +++++++ pom.xml                                            |  2 +- .../apache/calcite/adapter/spark/SparkRules.java   |  7 +-- 9 files changed, 117 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)

There are also --numstat

$ git diff --numstat HEAD~5 HEAD40      10      core/src/main/java/org/apache/calcite/rex/RexSimplify.java1       1       core/src/main/java/org/apache/calcite/sql/fun/SqlTrimFunction.java16      0       core/src/main/java/org/apache/calcite/sql2rel/SqlToRelConverter.java8       11      core/src/main/java/org/apache/calcite/util/SaffronProperties.java24      0       core/src/test/java/org/apache/calcite/test/RexProgramTest.java8       0       core/src/test/java/org/apache/calcite/test/SqlToRelConverterTest.java15      0       core/src/test/resources/org/apache/calcite/test/SqlToRelConverterTest.xml1       1       pom.xml4       3       spark/src/main/java/org/apache/calcite/adapter/spark/SparkRules.java

and --shortstat

$ git diff --shortstat HEAD~5 HEAD9 files changed, 117 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)