'git diff' doesn't give any output

Question

If I run git diff I would expect to see a list of changes of my working directory relative to whatever had been committed before (or a list of the working direc

Answer 1

Basing on your git status output there is nothing to show for git diff without additional parameters. There is nothing to show for git diff --cached and git diff HEAD as all of these commands rely on changes already known to Git.

You have no staged files and no changed files from those that are under version control now.

After you add test.txt under Git control you will get the desired output.

Just type

git add test.txt

or

git add .

Then this file will be added under version control. And future changes of this file will be shown by git diff.