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which allows you to see the difference on the master branch up a set time ago or a specified date.
### Compare branches across forked repositories
To use GitHub to compare branches across forked repositories, change the URL to look like this:
```
https://github.com/user/repo/compare/{foreign-user}:{branch}...{own-branch}
```
eg.:
```
https://github.com/rails/rails/compare/byroot:idempotent-counter-caches...master
```
## Line Highlighting in Repos
Either adding `#L52` to the end of a code file URL or simply clicking the line number will highlight that line number.