Let's say I created a new branch my_experiment from master and made several commits to my_experiment. If I do a git log when on my_experiment, I see the commits made to this branch, but also the commits made to master before the my_experiments branch was created.
I would find it very useful to see the history of all commits to the my_experiments branch until it hits the creation of that branch - effectively a true history of just that branch. Otherwise it's not clear to me when looking through the log whether the commits were on the my_experiments branch or not.
Is there a way to do this with Git?
You can use a range to do that.
git log master..
If you've checked out your my_experiment branch. This will compare where master is at to HEAD (the tip of my_experiment).