View differences of branches with meld?

Question

I know that I can view the difference between HEAD and current state with meld .. But how can I view the differences between branches, for example master<

Answer 1

I also found this issue annoying so I've made git meld which allows a more comfortable way of diffing arbitrary commits against the working tree or the staging area. You can find it at https://github.com/wmanley/git-meld . It's a bit like Mark's script but works for comparing any arbitrary commit or the staging area or the working directory against any of the others. If one of the things you are comparing against is the working tree then that is read-write also so you don't lose your changes.