From 307aa0001fa751988c1d0c41a89cdb38c48438fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bernhard Millauer <SeriousM@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2014 23:35:56 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Added cross repo comparision

---
 README.md | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 88fcf69..5ebbc43 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -235,6 +235,19 @@ https://github.com/rails/rails/compare/master@{2014-10-04}...master
 ```
 which allows you to see the difference on the master branch up a set time ago or a specified date.
 
+### Compare branches cross 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 lin number will highlight that line number.

From f0d3e503a84ee498d735277212f48ef326bfccd6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bernhard Millauer <bernhard.millauer@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 09:58:59 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Fixed a typo

---
 README.md | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 5ebbc43..823c5c3 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ https://github.com/rails/rails/compare/master@{2014-10-04}...master
 ```
 which allows you to see the difference on the master branch up a set time ago or a specified date.
 
-### Compare branches cross forked repositories
+### Compare branches across forked repositories
 
 To use GitHub to compare branches across forked repositories, change the URL to look like this: