Check if specific file in git repository has changed

Question

I am novice in dealing with git, but I have a repository that contains a file named \'test\'. I want to check if that specific file has changed. Is there anyway to do that?

Answer 1

Using

git diff test

will show the differences between the work directory test and the repository version. Using diff will show the actual differences; if you are not interested in those use

git diff --name-only test