git diff - show only what's new on the remote

Question

I have a local repo and a remote repo on github. For business reasons, they aren\'t in sync. I\'ve done a lot of work on the local that I\'m keeping, and now I\'m manually add

Answer 1

You can diff with the common ancestor:

git diff `git merge-base master origin/master` origin/master

Or with your previous fetch:

git diff origin/master@{1} origin/master

Answer 2

I believe you can put 3 dots between the two branches in the command and then it does only whats new in the second with respect to the first, i.e.

git diff master...feature

to see what's new on feature, and

git diff feature...master

to see what's new on master. In your case feature can be origin/master and that should work fine.

Answer 3

Try looking at git help rev-list. The option you are probably looking for is --right-only, so maybe this gets you what you want:

git diff --color --right-only master..origin/master