Git Examples: Comparing Branches, locally and remotely

Unless otherwise stated, we're using Git v2.x

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Compare working directory with remote branch

Run git fetch --all first so your local remotes are synced with the remotes

Suppose you have a local directory with unmerged changes and you want to compare it with a branch on github.

Suppose the other branch you want to compare against is called my-other-branch and origin is a remote pointing to github.

$ git fetch --all 
$ git diff origin/my-other-branch

Compare two arbitrary branches

TODO