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Asked: 2026-06-17T19:45:26+00:00

I have a git log command that allows me to see local commits that

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I have a git log command that allows me to see local commits that haven’t yet been pushed to the remote repository. It looks like this:

ahead = log origin/master..HEAD --graph --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset %d %s %Cgreen(%cr)%Creset %Cblue[%an]%Creset' --abbrev-commit --date=relative

This works fine as long as you are on the master branch. What I would like is a variable that I could put in the command where master is now, so that the git ahead alias would run against that branch. Something like the zsh $(git_prompt_info) variable, but that can be used in a gitconfig file as part of an alias definition.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You are looking for @{u}:

    <refname>@{upstream}, e.g. master@{upstream}, @{u}

    The suffix @{upstream} to a ref (short form <refname>@{u}) refers to the branch the ref is set to build on top of. A missing ref defaults to the current branch.

    So your alias should look like this:

    ahead = log @{u}..HEAD --graph --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset %d %s %Cgreen(%cr)%Creset %Cblue[%an]%Creset' --abbrev-commit --date=relative

    But I would recommend changing it to this:

    ahead = log @{u}...HEAD --graph --decorate --left-right --boundary --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset %d %s %Cgreen(%cr)%Creset %Cblue[%an]%Creset' --abbrev-commit --date=relative

    This will show both commits in the remote that are missing locally as well as local comits that are missing in the remote.

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