My preferred workflow is to be able to push changes into production using git. However, sometimes the project/server doesn’t support this (yet).

In these scenarios, it is very useful to be able to see which files have not yet been pushed to origin. Here is a nice one-liner that does exactly this:

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git log origin/master..master --name-only --pretty="format:" | sort | uniq

This assumes that you are working in master and that you don’t push to origin until you deploy to production. Adjust as needed.

If you find yourself using this a lot, you can create an alias for it so that you can simply type: git unpushed to run this command. Edit your ~/.gitconfig file and add this under the [alias] block if you like this idea:

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unpushed = !sh -c 'git log origin/master..master --name-only --pretty="format:" | sort | uniq | grep -v "^$"'

This file list could even be the input to another script which deploys the changed files to the production server. Enjoy!