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A puzzling omission from the Git book

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PTPeter Toye <git@ptoye.com>
Date
Mar 29, 2019, 12:55 UTC
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I'm looking for a way of comparing the files in two branches. According to Stack Overflow there's a git diff command but I can't see any reference to it in the book. Am I being more than usually thick?
The Git Gui app doesn't seem to have that command in it either. A bit frustrating.
 
Yours,

Peter mailto:git@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com

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