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

Not sure if there is a way to get the actual diff format closer to Github style but $ git diff master... seems to show the set of changes that a pull request would show (assuming it's a pull request against master). The list of changed files in a pull request seems to be equivalent to $ git diff --name-status master.... I guess this all assumes that your local branches are up-to-date with the remote Github branches