My Infinite Eternity | Shayan Amani

Jan 02, 2022

Mimic GitHub PR Diff Locally

What?!

The goal is to mimic the GitHub pull requests' file diff in your local repository: Image

How?

$ git diff <FIRTS_BRANCH_COMMIT_SHA> <LAST_BRANCH_COMMIT_SHA> --stat

To get a cleaner summary, pipe it to the tail command:

$ git diff <FIRTS_BRANCH_COMMIT_SHA> <LAST_BRANCH_COMMIT_SHA> --stat | tail -1

and you will get: Image