How to list all unmerged changes in Git?

Question

Creating a branch for various topics, and not regularly deleting them when I don't need them any more, I have now ended up with about 50 branches.

I tried deleting branches but some of them have unmerged changes.

What I want is the ability to see exactly what changes are there in any branch on my repo that are not in master. Is there a way to do that?

gawi · Accepted Answer · 2012-11-11T02:35:00.920

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To list branches with commits not merged into master:

git branch --no-merged master

To list the relevant commits:

git cherry -v master <branch>

edited Nov 11 '12 at 02:35

answered Aug 30 '10 at 15:54

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"git branch --no-merged master" does not show remote branches - clues to see those too? – Peter Toft Nov 05 '14 at 23:03
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Add the `-a` flag to include remote branches. – gawi Nov 06 '14 at 02:38
If it's giving u error, try to replace `master` by `origin` as upstream. – CodeFarmer Dec 21 '17 at 02:08
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note that branches merged by squash & merge will still show differences, even if there are none. – Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert Dec 20 '18 at 03:21
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Adding `-a` parameter will show local and remote branches and with `-r` will show only remote branches. – pafivi Feb 21 '20 at 23:34
What do the + and - signs before the commit hash mean? – Robert Niestroj Feb 07 '22 at 16:06

score 37 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 15 '17 at 20:05

I came across this question when I was trying to remember the syntax of...

git log <branch> --not master --stat

This will show commits to <branch> that have not been merged to master. The --stat will include the files that were changed with the commits. You can also use this to compare any two branches by replacing master with a different branch name.

joanis · Answer 3 · 2022-04-26T12:49:28.507

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This question is already well answered, but there is one more answer I think is worth documenting:

List all commits on any branch not already merged with master:

git log --all --not master

or, equivalently:

git log --all ^master

The --all picks up all branches, so you don't have to list them, then --not master or ^master removes master from the selection.

edited Apr 26 '22 at 12:49

answered Jan 22 '21 at 21:58

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+ some formatting for a more elegant output `git log --all --not master --graph --pretty=format:"%C(auto)%h%d%Creset %C(cyan)(%ci)%Creset %C(green)%cn %Creset %s" --name-status --date=short` – pavol.kutaj Jul 24 '21 at 04:27

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 24 '21 at 04:23

For the PowerShell folk a little combination of what has been said above. If needed, replace master with main. Test by pasting into your shell.

$notMergedList = (git branch --no-merged master) -replace " ", ""
ForEach($branchItem in $notMergedList) {
  write-host "~~> branch: $branchItem" -Foregroundcolor DarkCyan
  git cherry -v master $branchItem }

score -5 · Answer 5 · answered Aug 30 '10 at 13:26

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It is quite easy to get an overview of your branches with gitk.

answered Aug 30 '10 at 13:26

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Not if you have >20 branches – Peter Toft Nov 05 '14 at 23:01

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