Re: Equivalent of "bzr diff -rancestor:"

[Nicolas Richard <theonewiththeevillook@yahoo.fr>]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> I can't seem to figure out how to do the above.
>
> Say, I'm on local branch "foo" which tracks a remote branch "foo", and
> I'd like to see what are the changes on this branch foo compared to
> "master".
>
> In Bazaar, I'd do something like "bzr diff -r ancestor:<master>"
> but I can't find any equivalent in "man gitrevisions".
>
> The best I can come up with is to arrange for "foo" to be uptodate with
> respect to "master", and then I can just do "git diff <master>", but
> sometimes it's inconvenient/impractical to be "uptodate".

Perhaps you want:
git diff origin/foo master

You need to "git fetch" first, so that origin/foo is uptodate.

-- 
Nicolas Richard