Mastering the Magic of git diff: A Deep Dive for Advanced Developers

Unlocking the secrets of this powerful, yet underutilized Git command. Here’s how to show changes between your commits or between your commit and the working tree. We even git log!

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As a tribe of code-slinging professional developers, we often find ourselves neck-deep in the colorful yet murky swamp of Git.

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Amid the incessant humming of git push, git pull, and the occasional horrifying scream of git reset — hard HEAD~1, there’s a silent sentinel quietly watching over our code changes: the elusive git diff command.

In today’s deep dive, we’ll explore the dark corners and bright caverns of git diff — a tool that at times can be as sly as a mapache 🦝.

We’ll unearth the power that git diff holds and learn how it can make us better developers and “getting paid to git” power users.

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