title: Suppressing diffs for deleted files in git
body: <p>I want to get a quick overview of the local changes in my repository, but I don't want a diff that shows deleted files, since every single line is a minus.</p>
  
  <p>Basically, I want something like <code>'git diff HEAD &lt;list of modified files only&gt;'</code>. In an ideal world, it would be preceded by the list of deleted and added files, but not show the diffs within them.</p>
  
  <p>I was most of the way through writing a utility that does this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>git diff HEAD `git status | grep modified | cut -d : -f 2`
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  <p>when I wondered if there was some git-y way to do it instead. Is there a flag I'm missing? I'd love to preserve the color output, too.</p>