Question

I want to see the different changesets between to git repositories. The repos are related but neither is the direct origin of the other. In Mercurial, I would just do “hg outgoing other-repo” and “hg incoming other-repo“.

Answer 1

I assume you mean the different changesets between two branches in a repo. In git, you’ll have a couple extra steps. Go into one of the repos and do the following

git remote add other OTHER_REPO
git fetch other

Now you can view the differences with one of the following depending on which direction you want to go

# Similar to hg outgoing (changes which in your branch not in the remote) 
git log other/BRANCH_NAME..BRANCH_NAME

# Similar to hg incoming (changes in the remote not in your branch)
git log BRANCH_NAME..other/BRANCH_NAME