On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 9:22 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The merge-base is to compute the point you forked your topic from > the mainline. So if you want to compare your current state in the > index with the fork point, you'd do > > git diff --cached $(git merge-base master topic) > > and comparing your working tree state would be > > git diff --cached $(git merge-base master topic) > Those are both identical? Thanks, Jake -- 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