How do you recreate the GitHub pull request diff on the commandline?

Question

While working on a branch that I\'ve opened a pull request on, I would like to see the exact same diff that GitHub displays on the commandline. What is the particular git diff c

Answer 1

The closest thing is to diff with the common ancestor between your feature-branch and your base-branch.

Something like:

git diff `git merge-base feature-branch base-branch`