How can I ask what commits are different between my current local branch and the remote repository that I push to?
Not exactly a git diff origin/master master — I don’t want to see code differences. Just a list of changes like git log.
I want to quickly see how long it’s been since I pushed and how out of sync I am.
Git can not send this information remotely.
You would have to do a Git fetch (fetching the changes, without altering your working copy). You will then have a branch called "origin/master" which will enable you to use
git log master..origin/masterto get the variance between the two.