Number of commits on branch in git

Question

I\'m writing a small script and want to know how many commits I made on a current branch since it was created.

In this example I\'d have 2 commits made on chil

Answer 1

Update: git rev-list now has --count:

git rev-list --count master..

With older git versions:

git rev-list master.. |wc -l

rev-list lists revisions, and master.. refers to commits since current HEAD diverged from master.