How do I run git log to see changes only for a specific branch

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I have a local branch tracking the remote master branch  After running git-pull and git-log  the log will show all commits in the remote tracking branch as well as the current branch  However  because there were so many changes made to the remote branch  I need to see just the commits made to the current local branch   What would be the Git command to use to only show commits for a specific branch   Notes   Configuration information    branch  my-branch     remote   origin   merge   refs heads master

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just run git log origin  BRANCH NAME

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The problem I was having  which I think is similar to this  is that master was too far ahead of my branch point for the history to be useful   Navigating to the branch point would take too long    After some trial and error  this gave me roughly what I wanted   git log --graph --decorate --oneline --all  master

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Assuming that your branch was created off of master  then while in the branch  that is  you have the branch checked out    git cherry -v master   or  git log master     If you are not in the branch  then you can add the branch name to the  git log  command  like this   git log master  branchname   If your branch was made off of origin master  then say origin master instead of master

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Use   git log --graph --abbrev-commit --decorate  --first-parent  lt branch name gt    It is only for the target branch  of course --graph  --abbrev-commit --decorate are more polishing    The key option is --first-parent   Follow only the first parent commit upon seeing a merge commit   https   git-scm com docs git-log   It prevents the commit forks from being displayed

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For those using Magit  hit l and  m to toggle --no-merges and  pto toggle --first-parent  Then either just hit l again to show commits from the current branch  with none of commits merged onto it  down to end of history  or  if you want the log to end where it was branched off from master  hit o and type master   as your range

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If you want only those commits which are done by you in a particular branch  use the below command    git log branch name --author  Dyaniyal

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