How to get commit history for just one branch

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Let s say I created a new branch my experiment from  master and made several commits to my experiment  If I do a git log when on my experiment  I see the commits made to this branch  but also the commits made to master before the my experiments branch was created   I would find it very useful to see the history of all commits to the my experiments branch until it hits the creation of that branch - effectively a true history of just that branch  Otherwise it s not clear to me when looking through the log whether the commits were on the my experiments branch or not   Is there a way to do this with Git

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The git merge-base command can be used to find a common ancestor   So if my experiment has not been merged into master yet and my experiment was created from master you could   git log --oneline  git merge-base my experiment master   my experiment

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I think an option for your purposes is git log --online --decorate  This lets you know the checked commit  and the top commits for each branch that you have in your story line  By doing this  you have a nice view on the structure of your repo and the commits associated to a specific branch  I think reading this might help

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Note  if you limit that log to the last n commit  last 3 commits for instance  git log -3   make sure to put a space between  n  and your branch   git log -3 master     Before Git 2 1  August 2014   this mistake  git log -3master   would actually show you the last 3 commits of the current branch  here my experiment   ignoring the master limit  meaning if my experiment contains only one commit  3 would still be listed  2 of them from master   See commit e3fa568 by  Junio C Hamano  gitster    revision  parse  git log - lt count gt   more carefully     This mistyped command line simply ignores  master  and ends up showing two commits from the current HEAD      git log -2master      because we feed  2master  to atoi   without making sure that the whole string is parsed as an integer       Use the strtol i   helper function instead

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You can use only git log --oneline

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I know it s very late for this one    But here is a  not so simple  oneliner to get what you were looking for   git show-branch --all 2 gt  dev null   grep -E      git branch   grep -E         awk    printf  2        tail -n 2   sed -E  s                   We are listing commits with branch name and relative positions to actual branch states with git show-branch  sending the warnings to  dev null   Then we only keep those with our branch name inside the bracket with grep -E     BRANCH NAME   Where actual  BRANCH NAME is obtained with git branch   grep -E         awk    printf  2     the branch with a star  echoed without that star   From our results  we remove the redundant line at the beginning with tail -n 2  And then  we fianlly clean up the output by removing everything preceding   BRANCH NAME  with sed -E  s

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You can use a range to do that   git log master     If you ve checked out your my experiment branch  This will compare where master is at to HEAD  the tip of my experiment

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