Preview a Git push

Question

How can I see which commits are actually going to be pushed to a remote repository?

As far as I know, whenever I pull master from the remote repository, com

Answer 1

I've added the following aliases to my ~/.gitconfig, to show what would be merged (during a pull), what would be pushed, and an alias to diff against the remote:

[alias]
        # diff remote branch (e.g., git diff origin/master master)
        difr = "diff @{u}"

        # similar to hg incoming/outgoing, showing what would be pulled/pushed
        # use option "-p" to see actual patch
        incoming = "!git remote update -p; git log ..@{u}"

        # showing what would be pushed (see also alias difr)
        outgoing = log @{u}..