Git diff between current branch and master but not including unmerged master commits

Question

I want a diff of all changes in a branch that is not merged to master yet.

I tried:

git diff master
git diff branch..master
git diff branch...master
         


        

Answer 1

As also noted by John Szakmeister and VasiliNovikov, the shortest command to get the full diff from master's perspective on your branch is:

git diff master...

This uses your local copy of master.

To compare a specific file use:

git diff master... filepath

Output example: