Let's say, you're on your terminal and you want to have the list of commits from your current branch !

There is some tricks to do that, the faster one is just to git log and scroll !
But i found useful to made a simple alias to do so !

As you can see, this is quite simple, it's a combination of 2 main commands i set up in my ~/.gitconfig as an alias :

[alias]
    ; to list commits from the current branch
    commit-list = !git log --no-merges --oneline --decorate master..$(git branch --show-current)

HOW

• First, i need to get the branch where i am right now, and to do that, i use git branch --show-current
• Second, am going to compare with git log, the difference commits from my branch to the master branch, because i don't want merges, nor too much details, i added two flags, --no-merges and --oneline + a simple --decorate. git log --no-merges --oneline --decorate

DEMO

PS: Don't worry about the "passphrase" on the demo, i added a lot of security checks for any git command on my local machine, i may do a future post about that soon !

EDIT : From Christophe Colombier, you can do the same thing with a native command, such as : git cherry -v origin

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