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Asked: 2026-05-15T05:59:02+00:00

I have just performed git add –interactive , so the index version of some

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I have just performed git add --interactive, so the index version of some files is different than the working-directory versions. Instead of doing git diff --cached, I want to actually dump the contents of each file in the index, but I can’t find a command to do that. I should think that there would be something like git show INDEX:filename..., but “INDEX” is not a valid object name.

I was able to do git ls --cached, then git show <hash>, but there should be a more straightforward method to see what you are committing.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Yes, simply:

    git show :filename

    If you have multiple index versions (such as in a merge conflict situation) you can view versions in different index slots with:

    git show :1:filename
git show :2:filename
git show :3:filename

    In most other situations only slot 0 is populated and :0:filename is the identifer for the cached version of the file. :filename is a shorthand for :0:filename.

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