How to diff a single, unstaged file in magit-status?











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With the now deprecated git-status, I could run git-diff-file (=) to see quickly what has been changed (without visiting the buffer first or digging through the the complete list of unstaged changes).






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do display a diff of build/conf/local.conf?



With the now deprecated git-status, I could run git-diff-file (=) to see quickly what has been changed (without visiting the buffer first or digging through the the complete list of unstaged changes).






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How can I display a diff for the actually selected file in magit-status? What can I do in



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do display a diff of build/conf/local.conf?



With the now deprecated git-status, I could run git-diff-file (=) to see quickly what has been changed (without visiting the buffer first or digging through the the complete list of unstaged changes).






magit git diff







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How can I display a diff for the actually selected file in magit-status? What can I do in



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do display a diff of build/conf/local.conf?



With the now deprecated git-status, I could run git-diff-file (=) to see quickly what has been changed (without visiting the buffer first or digging through the the complete list of unstaged changes).






magit git diff




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