How can I diff two branches in GitHub?

Question

I am just wondering if there is a way to simply diff two branches in GitHub? I know GitHub has capacity to do it because when we do code-reviews it does list out all the dif

Answer 1

Expanding on @Ari M's answer. URL format is as follows:

https:///compare/...

Note the difference between .. and ... (2 and 3 dots).

2 dots: show all commits that TARGET has but SOURCE doesn't and commits that SOURCE has but TARGET doesn't.

3 dots: show all commits that TARGET has but SOURCE doesn't. You usually want this.

E.g. to see what was added in the gh-pages branch compared to master in linguist repo:

https://github.com/octocat/linguist/compare/master...gh-pages