Compare composer.json on Two Different Git Branches

I have composer.json files on two different branches and I want to compare their (non-dev) dependencies. This is the command I run to compare the require section of composer.json on my current branch to the require section of composer.json on the branch env_qa.

diff <(jq --sort-keys '.require' composer.json) <(git show env_qa:composer.json | jq --sort-keys '.require')

I’m using jq to extract the dependencies under the require key in composer.json.

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