# Re: \[PATCH 0/6\] Optionally restrict range-diff output to "left" or "right" range only

- From: Junio C Hamano \<hidden\>
- Date: 2021-02-04 22:42:33 
- List: git
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2021/02/7875163
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2021/02/7875163/t.md

```text
"Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget" [ref]
writes:

> One of my quite common workflows is to see whether an ancient topic branch I
> have lying about has made it into Git. Since my local commit OIDs have
> nothing to do with the OIDs of the corresponding commits in git/git, my only
> way is to fire up git range-diff ...upstream/master, but of course that
> output contains way more commits than I care about.
>
> To help this use case, here is a patch series that teaches git range-diff
> the --left-only and --right-only options in the end, restricting the output
> to those commits and commit pairs that correspond to the commits in the
> first and the second range, respectively.

Makes sense.
```