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How do I see all of my changes on a branch?

Subject: How do I see all of my changes on a branch?

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jonhud· Oct 13, 2009, 19:40 UTC · lore

Hi,

We are using github (but that's more or less irrelevant, since I'm just running git 1.6 locally on Ubuntu). Some time ago, I created a new branch (release.2.2) and pushed it out to the remote repository. All the digging through log, gitk, etc. has not made it possible for me to figure out the commit (or point in time) at which I cut the branch.

What I want to do is to get a list of files (and/or diffs for those files) from that point in time to HEAD on the branch. I understand that git-diff --name-only is part of the solution. What I can't figure out is how to pinpoint the first commit. So that's my first question... how do I do that?

To complicate things, I was also working on a side branch which I merged to master before cutting the release.2.2 branch. In the best of all worlds, I would trace my changes back to the point at which I cut *that* branch and follow through the HEAD of release.2.2. How do I do that? I know I might have to take 2 passes, one for release 2.2 and one for the side branch and that's OK.

Thanks!

Jon

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Shawn O. Pearce· Oct 13, 2009, 20:23 UTC · re: jonhud · lore

Re: How do I see all of my changes on a branch?

jonhud <jon@huddler-inc.com> wrote:

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> We are using github (but that's more or less irrelevant, since I'm just
> running git 1.6 locally on Ubuntu). Some time ago, I created a new branch
> (release.2.2) and pushed it out to the remote repository. All the digging
> through log, gitk, etc. has not made it possible for me to figure out the
> commit (or point in time) at which I cut the branch.

git merge-base release2.2 HEAD

Which really lets you do:

  git diff $(git merge-base release.2.2 HEAD) HEAD

Which is the long form of:

  git diff release-2.2...HEAD

(diff triple dot operator does the merge base computation for you).

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Tim Mazid· Oct 28, 2009, 12:08 UTC · re: jonhud · lore

Re: How do I see all of my changes on a branch?

jonhud wrote:

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> 
> Hi,
> 
> We are using github (but that's more or less irrelevant, since I'm just
> running git 1.6 locally on Ubuntu). Some time ago, I created a new branch
> (release.2.2) and pushed it out to the remote repository. All the digging
> through log, gitk, etc. has not made it possible for me to figure out the
> commit (or point in time) at which I cut the branch. 
>

Um, unfortunately, all the commits that are prior to HEAD count as being on the branch. Have you tried using 'gitk --all' to look through? You should be able to see the split point there.

jonhud wrote:

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> 
> What I want to do is to get a list of files (and/or diffs for those files)
> from that point in time to HEAD on the branch. I understand that git-diff
> --name-only is part of the solution. What I can't figure out is how to
> pinpoint the first commit. So that's my first question... how do I do
> that?
>

Once you've found the commit, you can 'git diff COMMIT', or you can even, straight in gitk, (make sure you have your branch selected), right click on the commit and select 'diff this->selected'.

jonhud wrote:

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> 
> To complicate things, I was also working on a side branch which I merged
> to master before cutting the release.2.2 branch. In the best of all
> worlds, I would trace my changes back to the point at which I cut *that*
> branch and follow through the HEAD of release.2.2. How do I do that? I
> know I might have to take 2 passes, one for release 2.2 and one for the
> side branch and that's OK.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Jon
>

The same method should work for that as well.

Good luck, Tim.

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