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

Question

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 

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

Use:

git log --graph --abbrev-commit --decorate  --first-parent <branch_name> 

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.