Get a Git diff of the previous commit


        
            
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            git diff HEAD^ HEAD
(HEAD^ means the previous version of head; leaving off the second HEAD would show any uncommitted changes lying around as well.)
To limit to a particular file, in this case "midbucket.view.inc" in the directory from which we run the command:
git diff HEAD^ HEAD -- midbucket.view.inc