GitHub – Compare Releases to a Specific Branch

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I notice that in the GitHub “Releases” page there is a handy mention of how many commits have occurred since branch “Develop”. For instance, see this example from AnkiDroid.

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How can GitHub be configured to show how many commits were made to a different branch?

Best Answer

You can see the commits and changes between tags if you change the URL to the following format:

https://github.com/{username}/{repo}/compare/{older-tag}...{newer-tag}

This will show you the count and changes of up to 250 commits made between the tags.

So from your example it would be:

https://github.com/ankidroid/Anki-Android/compare/v2.2beta7...v2.2beta8

Similarly if you wanted to compare commits between branches the URL would be like this:

https://github.com/{username}/{repo}/compare/{branch}...{other-branch}
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