Viewing Unpushed Git Commits

Question

How can I view any local commits I've made, that haven't yet been pushed to the remote repository? Occasionally, git status will print out that my branch is X commits ahead of origin/master, but not always.

Is this a bug with my install of Git, or am I missing something?

Answer 1

This worked for me:

git cherry -v 

As indicated at Git: See all unpushed commits or commits that are not in another branch.

Answer 2

one way of doing things is to list commits that are available on one branch but not another.

git log ^origin/master master

Answer 3

This worked better for me:

git log --oneline @{upstream}..

or:

git log --oneline origin/(remotebranch)..

Answer 4

If you want to see all commits on all branches that aren't pushed yet, you might be looking for something like this:

git log --branches --not --remotes

And if you only want to see the most recent commit on each branch, and the branch names, this:

git log --branches --not --remotes --simplify-by-decoration --decorate --oneline

Answer 5

I use the following alias to get just the list of files (and the status) that have been committed but haven't been pushed (for the current branch)

git config --global alias.unpushed \
"diff origin/$(git name-rev --name-only HEAD)..HEAD --name-status"

then just do:

git unpushed

Answer 6

You could try....

gitk

I know it is not a pure command line option but if you have it installed and are on a GUI system it's a great way to see exactly what you are looking for plus a whole lot more.

(I'm actually kind of surprised no one mentioned it so far.)