Getting the difference between two repositories

Question

How can we get the difference between two git repositories?

The scenario: We have a repo_a and repo_b. The latter was created as a copy of repo_a. There have been pa

Answer 1

You can add other repo first as a remote to your current repo:

git remote add other_name PATH_TO_OTHER_REPO

then fetch brach from that remote:

git fetch other_name branch_name:branch_name

this creates that branch as a new branch in your current repo, then you can diff that branch with any of your branches, for example, to compare current branch against new branch(branch_name):

git diff branch_name