Find files of commit A that have changed compared to commit B with git?

Question

I am looking for something like "git diff --name-only B A", but limited to files contained in commit A. Or, in other words, I need a list of all files changed with commit A (excluding history) that are not the same as in commit B (including history).

Is there an easy way to do this in git?

Regards, Jochen

Answer 1

You can use the --diff-filter option to do this. To find only the files that are modified (rather than deleted or added, say) between A and B, you could do:

git diff --name-only --diff-filter=M B A