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Hmm, what is the exact scenario here? Why can't you simply cut a new branch off master if you want all your changes in a different branch than master?

In any case, "git extract" from master is not even possible. You have to cut a feature branch from a branch that does not contain your commits (this is typically master). Then cherry-pick some commits from a feature branch into them. Then you can submit a pull request against master, which compares your branch against master and thereby sees the diff. If master already contains your commits, there is no diff, an empty pull request, and no merge possible.

This is also bad coding behavior that I don't want to encourage. Ideally branches are in synchronization with their remote tracking branches. You shouldn't develop on master and rely that these commits are only local.

I think that's the same for forked repos. You should develop on feature branches there as well, then PR them against the main repo's master.

What do you think?

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I'm closing this for now, please let me know if you feel strongly about this.

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