GitHub compare view for current versions of branches

Question

Is there a way to use GitHub\'s \"compare view\" to view the diff between the current versions of two branches? (That is, to view the same diff that you would get if y

Answer 1

GitHub now (Sept. 2018, 4 years later) explicitly supports "Three-dot and two-dot Git diff comparisons".

The URL https://github.com/github/linguist/compare/c3a414e..faf7c6 will display:

The message is:

This is a direct comparison between two commits made in this repository or its related forks

Now you can easily see the differences between two commits without comparing from their common merge base commit like a three dot comparison would.