For lack of a better name, I made a small script called “git-notpushed”, which shows the commits you haven’t pushed to your remote yet. But you can call it whatever you want. :)

It’s basically shorthand for doing things like this a lot:

$ git log master ^origin/master

Put this in any directory in your PATH and make it executable:

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#!/bin/sh
#
# Shows commits you haven't pushed to the remote yet.  Accepts same
# arguments as git-log.  Assumes 'origin' is the default remote if no
# branch.Foo.remote configuration exists.

curr_branch=$(git symbolic-ref -q HEAD | sed -e 's|^refs/heads/||')
origin=$(git config --get "branch.$curr_branch.remote")
origin=${origin:-origin}

git log $@ $curr_branch ^remotes/$origin/$curr_branch

Runnin’ in the wild:

~ (master) $ git-notpushed
commit 4adcfd0456e1563d5d210cd3db62a8d2a51f0953
Author: Garry Dolley 
Date:   Wed Dec 5 22:23:01 2007 -0800

    Added more addresses
~ (master) $

Looks like I have one commit I haven’t pushed yet. I can also give git-notpushed the same arguments as git-log, should I prefer a different output format, etc…

For super brevity, you can even alias it with this in your ~/.bashrc:



alias gnp='git-notpushed'

Have fun and let me know if this is useful to you.