composer-diff performs a git diff command on your project.
Unlike git diff, however, it will also return differences in any packages marked in your composer.lock file
A good way to install CLI tools from composer is 'composer global require':
composer global require sminnee/composer-diff
Then, if you haven't already, add ~/.composer/vendor/bin to your shell path.
The binary will be installed to ~/.composer/vendor/bin/composer-diff.
You can see the changes themselves this way:
composer-diff diff sha-from [sha-to]
sha-fromis the SHA of your project to use as the starting pointsha-tois the SHA of your project to use as the end point. If ommitted, the current check-out of code is used
If you wish to see the log messages instead of the changes, use this command:
composer-diff log sha-from [sha-to]
- Doesn't work if a package isn't checked out in your project as a git repo
- Output not the best