After extensively looking at git help rev-parse
and experimenting around, I found this piece of information:
<rev1>..<rev2>
Include commits that are reachable from <rev2> but exclude those
that are reachable from <rev1>. When either <rev1> or <rev2> is
omitted, it defaults to HEAD.
<rev1>...<rev2>
Include commits that are reachable from either <rev1> or <rev2>
but exclude those that are reachable from both. When either <rev1>
or <rev2> is omitted, it defaults to HEAD.
Somehow I was always under the impression, that master..branch
is what I need and forgot about master...branch
(with three dots).
But experimenting with it showed, that the three-dot notation is exactly what I’m looking for:
$ git diff master...branch
shows only the differences of branch
relative to where it took off of master
.