Viewing unpushed Git commits

Question

How can I view any local commits I\'ve made, that haven\'t yet been pushed to the remote repository? Occasionally, git status will print out that my branch is X

Answer 1

one way of doing things is to list commits that are available on one branch but not another.

git log ^origin/master master

Answer 2

As said above:

git diff origin/master..HEAD

But if you are using git gui

After opening gui interface, Select "Repository"->Under that "Visualize History"

Note: Some people like to use CMD Prompt/Terminal while some like to use Git GUI (for simplicity)

Answer 3

git branch -v will show, for each local branch, whether it's "ahead" or not.

Answer 4

This worked for me:

git cherry -v 

As indicated at Git: See all unpushed commits or commits that are not in another branch.

Answer 5

Handy git alias for looking for unpushed commits in current branch:

alias unpushed = !GIT_CURRENT_BRANCH=$(git name-rev --name-only HEAD) && git log origin/$GIT_CURRENT_BRANCH..$GIT_CURRENT_BRANCH --oneline

What this basically does:

git log origin/branch..branch

but also determines current branch name.

Answer 6

I had a commit done previously, not pushed to any branch, nor remote nor local. Just the commit. Nothing from other answers worked for me, but with:

git reflog

There I found my commit.