Git: show total file size difference between two commits?

Question

Is it possible to show the total file size difference between two commits? Something like:

$ git file-size-diff 7f3219 bad418 # I wish this worked :)
-1234 b         


        

Answer 1

You can pipe the out put of

git show some-ref:some-path-to-file | wc -c
git show some-other-ref:some-path-to-file | wc -c

and compare the 2 numbers.