Branch diff count widget

[moritz-t-w]

The feature request

Add the a-b-count-widget which shows how many commits a branch differs from the default branch as seen on GitHub.

Proposed solution

Just copying this over from the website would be a great addition to add some more information at a glance to the otherwise quite empty UI that could just fit this little widget

Additional context

GitHub:

GitHub Desktop:

[steveward]

Thanks for the feedback @moritz-t-w, I'm going to add this to #8048 where we are tracking improvements to the branch list. For reference you can currently use the Select Branch to Compare... option in the History tab to see the ahead/behind count.