GIT (CLI) - Get ( only ) list of commit that differs between two branch

Question

I can find many similar question but none seems to be exactly what I need:

• Get a list of all commit that are in branch A and not in branch B ( in a way similar to how phpstorm works )
• I mean a complete list of all missing commit, every commit one line
• A cli command is what I'm looking for ( git log master..staging is ok but its output is multi line )

Basically I want to crosscheck by cli if something is missed on master branch in comparison to production branch and I want to do it programmatically so by script (bash).

I'm looking for a command line, similar to git log master..staging but with a more concise output.

SOLUTION:

• --no-pager -> no pagination in the output
• --oneline -> everything in one line
• --merges -> show only merges

git --no-pager log --oneline --decorate --merges master..staging

Answer 1

My favourite formatting is

git log --oneline --decorate B..A

Answer 2

git log --oneline master..staging

If you're scripting and just want the commit ids, do:

git rev-parse master..staging