Hi

I have displayed the contents of the commits with the command you indicate,
but they still look much the same:

D:\gittest>git ls-tree -r --name-only 91ef45d
C1.java
C2.java
C3.java
C4.java
C5.java


D:\gittest>git ls-tree -r --name-only 8ec0c2f
C1.java
C2.java
C3.java
C4.java
C5.java

I thought that in the second one I would see only the changed file.

-Angelo

On Thu, 27 Oct 2022 at 19:28, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

Angelo Borsotti [off-list ref] writes:

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Then I displayed the contents of both commits, and seen that it is pretty much
the same:

D:\gittest>git show --pretty="" --name-only 91ef45d
C2.java

D:\gittest>git show --pretty="" --name-only 8ec0c2f
C2.java

You did not display the contents of these commits, though.  For each
of these commits, you checked the _difference_ between it and its
parent.

In the previous sequence

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I have tested this in the following way: I have two files: C1.java and C2.java

    > git status
    On branch master
    nothing added to commit
    > ... edit C2.java
    > git status
    On branch master
    Changes not staged for commit:
    (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
    (use "git restore <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)
        modified:   C2.java
     > git add C1.java
     > git add C2.java
     > git commit -m "commit2"
     D:\gittest>git commit -m "commit1"
     [master 91ef45d] commit1
     1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

91ef45d, relative to its parent (i.e. the previous state before the
commit was made), C2.java was modified.  C1.java was not.

So, what you saw

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D:\gittest>git show --pretty="" --name-only 91ef45d
C2.java

is very much consistent with what you did.  And the above does not
mean 91ef45d does not have C1.java.  If you want to "display" the
contents of commit 91ef45d, you could

        $ git ls-tree -r --name-only 91ef45d

which lists all the contents in commit 91ef45d

or

        $ git diff --name-only $(git hash-object --stdin -t tree </dev/null) 91ef45d

which compares all the contents in commit 91ef45d with a completely
empty tree.

In them, you'd see both C1 and C2, among other things that you did
not modify in 91ef45d.