How to compare two different commits on the same branch in github?

Question

Comparing histories on the same branch is very confusing for me on GitHub. I struggle with this regularly:

If I use compare/master in the URL after the

Answer 1

You can use the following URL structure to compare commits in the same branch:

github.com///compare/...

Replace values for username, repo_name, commit1 & commit2 acc. to your project.

The separator between the two commits is ... i.e. 3 dots.