If GitHub is your daily driver or you’ve contributed to open source at some point, you’ve probably seen the comparison screen before. You can compare a lot in there, but most of it isn’t available in the UI. Here are a few tricks you probably didn’t know about. If you compare the current version of master with a previous commit, use the commit hash separated by three dots.

You can also compare a branch to a specific point in time.
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