Re: [Q] Comparing differences introduced by two commits?

> Jonathan del Strother <maillist@steelskies.com> writes:
>
>> On 22 August 2012 13:10, Brian Foster <brian.foster@maxim-ic.com> wrote:
>> ...
>>>  In the past I've done:
>>>
>>>     diff <(git show A) <(git show B)
>>>
>>>  which produces rather messy output but is Ok when dealing
>>>  with just one or two sets of A/B commits.  I now have a
>>>  large-ist set of A/B commits, and the above is impractical.
>
> Isn't this what interdiff is for?
>
>>>  Some searching hasn't found any suggestions I'm too happy
>>>  with, albeit I've very possibly overlooked something.
>>
>> What about cherry picking B onto A, then showing the cherry-picked commit?
>>
>> Off the top of my head :
>>
>> git checkout A
>> git cherry-pick B
>> git show HEAD
>
> Wouldn't you see a lot of needless conflicts while doing such a cherry-pick?
>
> I often do
>
>         git checkout A^
>         git cherry-pick B
>         git diff A
>
> when queuing an updated patch.
>