How can we get the list of files differences between two branches residing in two separate repositories
Scenario: Suppose we have 2 repositories 'A' & 'B', B was created from A since A is the base repo. Now the development work has been taking place since long on both this repositories 'A' with branch 'support/v1' and 'B' with branch 'master'. I want to find and check which files are missing with 'B'. In short need an list of files difference between branches of this two repo.
repo branches
A => support/v1
B => master
Need help to find the list of files using git
Add both repos as a remote in your local repository and then run diff like you would for any other branches:
git clone pathorurl/to/A.git
cd A
git remote add B pathorurl/to/B.git
git fetch --all
git diff origin/support/v1 B/master
This will work for any two repositories, because git diff only looks at tree objects and is not interested in commit history.