Re: workflow question

>> >  ... and I don't commit until I've completed
>> >  the particular feature I'm working on, I can get a fairly good idea of
>> >  where I am and what I was doing last (which might be 5-7 days ago,
>> >  given high priority interrupts on other projects, summer vacations,
>> >  etc...) just by running a "git status".  I see that there are 7 new
>> >  files, and 2 modified files.  I know that, when I fork my branch, I
>> >  can use "git diff master" to see what's different between my branch
>> >  and the master, but then I get the diff of all of the changes as well,
>> >  which is too much information.  "git diff --name-only" and "git diff
>> >  --summary" are closer, but I can't tell what's been added vs. what's
>> >  been changed.  Any suggestions?
>>
>>  "git log -p ..master", or even simpler "gitk ..master"
> I was hoping for something less verbose than a diff or a patch file --
> something that just listed what has changed -- I'll have to
> investigate whether your "my_status()" macro provides the information
> for which I was looking -- thanks for the pointer.