How to git diff without typing the whole path

Question

I\'m using the github windows shell and I\'ll do the following

git status

see a list of modified files and want to remind myself what\'s ch

Answer 1

most terminals (e.g. console2 for windows) have auto-completion.

start typing and press tab

usually git can auto-complete after 2 characters. like:

gi tab di tab

will give you git diff. if your folders are not named similarly than it might auto-complete after a single character. like if your project root had three files:

• readme
• /source/
• /bin/

you could simply type r, s, or b then tab to auto-type any of those file names.

fyi, auto complete works for terminal and git commands, file and directory names, branch and tag names, but unfortunately not for commit ids.