git - changes to branch since created?
branch, git, msysgit
Solution
To find where your current checkout diverged from the master branch,
base=`git merge-base master HEAD`
echo $base
to find out what files have been changed since then,
git diff --name-only $base HEAD
to show the accumulated difference
git diff $base HEAD
When you want to describe an entire series of commits you can use the syntax in the answer Gabriele Petronella linked above, `master..HEAD` is shorthand for `HEAD ^master` which means "all commits reachable from HEAD, but not including commits reachable from master". Missing endpoints default to HEAD, so you can say `git log --oneline master..`
Problem
I'm always asking myself a set of questions about branches i've created that i've yet to determine how to accomplish: - What files did i change in branch? - What are the actually changes (diff) i made to the branch? - What is the log of commits that i made to the branch? Now i think if figured out how to get the hashes of all the commits that were committed to the branch but not merged into master using `git cherry master <branchname>`. With this i could go hash by hash and figure out everything but if you have a lot of commits this could be time consuming. Notice i'm not wanting to compare to current state of master. I think the key is knowing the hash of master that you created your branch off of but i'm not exactly sure how to determine this.