Google results point to how to get to commits that have gone into parent branches, but fundamentally I just want to have a script that constructs a diff of what has changed since the latest branch without having to do manual research to figure out the name. As best as I can tell, you use: git format-patch -o pdir --ignore-if-in-upstream $branch the hard part seems to be (but ought not be) figuring out the value for "$branch". -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html