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From: "Dmitry Potapov" <dpotapov@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: How to find where a branch was taken from.
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 23:03:18 +0300
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On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 9:48 PM, Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  "git show-branch" has logic very close to what we need here: if you
>  give it the names of your current branch and its parent, it'll show
>  you just the changes on both branches since the branchpoint.  But I
>  don't really want to know about additional changes on the parent, only
>  on the branch I'm working with, and I often prefer the output to be in
>  git-log's (very flexible) format instead of git-show-branch.

I believe that

   git log parent-branch..local-branch

should give you exactly what you want, i.e. all changes on your local
branch since it was copied from the parent branch.

Dmitry