git - How to compare two different commits on the same branch in github?

Question

Comparing histories on the same branch is very confusing for me on GitHub. I struggle with this regularly:

If I use compare/master in the URL after the GitHub repo name, I can compare against other branches in the repo based on the options in the drop-down menus.

https://help.github.com/en/articles/comparing-commits-across-time

However, I usually want to compare several commits on master.

How is this easily done? Could I get a more clear example?

Answer 1

You can use the following URL structure to compare commits in the same branch:

github.com/<username>/<repo_name>/compare/<commit1>...<commit2>

Replace values for username, repo_name, commit1 & commit2 acc. to your project.

The separator between the two commits is ... i.e. 3 dots.