git ahead behind info between master and branch

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I have created a branch for testing in my local repo  test-branch  which I pushed to Github   If I go to my Github account and select this test-branch it shows the info   This branch is 1 commit ahead and 2 commits behind master   My questions are    How can I display this info locally  ie  a command that shows this on the terminal  rather than having to open Github to see it   I know I can see the diffs between branches using   git diff master  test-branch   or using Meld  which I prefer    git difftool master  test-branch   but I was wondering if there s a way to see the ahead and behind commits separately  I E   is there a way to show that 1 commit ahead by itself and then those 2 commits behind by themselves

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You can also use awk to make it a little bit prettier   git rev-list --left-right --count  origin develop   feature-branch   awk   print  Behind   1  - Ahead   2        You can even make an alias that always fetches origin first and then compares the branches  commit-diff     git fetch  amp  gt   dev null  amp  amp  git rev-list --left-right --count

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Here s a trick I found to compare two branches and show how many commits each branch is ahead of the other  a more general answer on your question 1    For local branches  git rev-list --left-right --count master   test-branch  For remote branches  git rev-list --left-right --count origin master   origin test-branch  This gives output like the following   1       7  This output means   Compared to master  test-branch is 7 commits ahead and 1 commit behind    You can also compare local branches with remote branches  e g  origin master   master to find out how many commits the local master branch is ahead behind its remote counterpart

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With Git 2 5   you now have another option to see ahead behind for all branches which are configured to push to a branch   git for-each-ref --format    push track   refs heads   See more at  Viewing Unpushed Git Commits

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After doing a git fetch  you can run git status to show how many commits the local branch is ahead or behind of the remote version of the branch   This won t show you how many commits it is ahead or behind of a different branch though  Your options are the full diff  looking at github  or using a solution like Vimhsa linked above  Git status over all repo  39 s

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First of all to see how many revisions you are behind locally  you should do a git fetch to make sure you have the latest info from your remote   The default output of git status tells you how many revisions you are ahead or behind  but usually I find this too verbose     git status   On branch master   Your branch and  origin master  have diverged    and have 2 and 1 different commit each  respectively    nothing to commit  working directory clean    I prefer git status -sb     git status -sb    master   origin master  ahead 2  behind 1    In fact I alias this to simply git s  and this is the main command I use for checking status   To see the diff in the  ahead revisions  of master  I can exclude the  behind revisions  from origin master   git diff master  origin master    To see the diff in the  behind revisions  of origin master  I can exclude the  ahead revisions  from master   git diff origin master  master     If there are 5 revisions ahead or behind it might be easier to write like this   git diff master  origin master 5 git diff origin master  master 5   UPDATE  To see the ahead behind revisions  the branch must be configured to track another branch  For me this is the default behavior when I clone a remote repository  and after I push a branch with git push -u remotename branchname  My version is 1 8 4 3  but it s been working like this as long as I remember   As of version 1 8  you can set the tracking branch like this   git branch --track test-branch   As of version 1 7  the syntax was different   git branch --set-upstream test-branch

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