jani, 3 months ago

I usually have lots of git branches with various iterations of whatever I'm working on. And I lose track what each branch contains. git range-diff is great, but a bit tedious.

Here's a helper alias to "range compare" two branches. It finds their common ancestor, and range diffs them.

Usage: git range-compare rev1 [rev2]

~/.gitconfig:
[alias]
range-compare = "!f() { rev1=${1:?no branch to compare to}; rev2=${2:-HEAD}; git range-diff $(git merge-base $rev1 $rev2) $rev1 $rev2; }; f"

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