diff --git a/packages/sfp-cli/messages/impact_release_config.json b/packages/sfp-cli/messages/impact_release_config.json
index d96edc890..8cd21e90e 100644
--- a/packages/sfp-cli/messages/impact_release_config.json
+++ b/packages/sfp-cli/messages/impact_release_config.json
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 {
   "commandDescription": "Figures out impacted release configurations of a project, due to a change,from the last known tags",
   "releaseConfigFileFlagDescription":"Path to the directory containing release defns",
+  "branchFlagDescription":"The branch on which the comparison is carried out",
   "baseCommitOrBranchFlagDescription": "The base branch on which the git tags should be used from",
   "filterByFlagDescription": "Filter by a specific release config name",
+  "filterByChangesInBranchFlagDescription": "Filter packages by changes with the provided branches as opposed to tags",
   "explictDependencyCheckFlagDescription": "Activate to consider dependencyOn attribut while handling impact"
 }
diff --git a/packages/sfp-cli/src/commands/impact/releaseconfig.ts b/packages/sfp-cli/src/commands/impact/releaseconfig.ts
index b8e7bec9c..fa6090efa 100644
--- a/packages/sfp-cli/src/commands/impact/releaseconfig.ts
+++ b/packages/sfp-cli/src/commands/impact/releaseconfig.ts
@@ -18,6 +18,10 @@ const messages = Messages.loadMessages('@flxblio/sfp', 'impact_release_config');
 export default class ReleaseConfig extends sfpCommand {
     public static flags = {
         loglevel,
+        branch: Flags.string({
+            description: messages.getMessage('branchFlagDescription'),
+            required: true,
+        }),
         basebranch: Flags.string({
             description: messages.getMessage('baseCommitOrBranchFlagDescription'),
             required: true,
@@ -33,6 +37,9 @@ export default class ReleaseConfig extends sfpCommand {
         filterBy: Flags.string({
             description: messages.getMessage('filterByFlagDescription'),
         }),
+        filterByChangesInBranch: Flags.boolean({
+            description: messages.getMessage('filterByChangesInBranchFlagDescription'),
+        }),
     };
 
     public static description = messages.getMessage('commandDescription');
@@ -52,6 +59,13 @@ export default class ReleaseConfig extends sfpCommand {
             },
         };
 
+        if(this.flags.filterByChangesInBranch)
+        {
+            this.props.diffOptions.useBranchCompare=true;
+            this.props.diffOptions.branch=this.flags.branch;
+            this.props.diffOptions.baseBranch=this.flags.basebranch;
+        }
+
         const impactedPackageResolver = new ImpactedPackageResolver(this.props, new ConsoleLogger());
 
         let packagesToBeBuiltWithReasons = await impactedPackageResolver.getImpactedPackages();
diff --git a/packages/sfp-cli/src/core/git/GitTags.ts b/packages/sfp-cli/src/core/git/GitTags.ts
index 846585451..845806c6d 100644
--- a/packages/sfp-cli/src/core/git/GitTags.ts
+++ b/packages/sfp-cli/src/core/git/GitTags.ts
@@ -45,12 +45,13 @@ export default class GitTags {
         let refTagsPointingToBranch: string[] = refTags.filter((refTag) => commits.includes(refTag.substring(0, 40)));
 
         // Only match the name of the tags pointing to the branch
-        refTagsPointingToBranch = refTagsPointingToBranch.map(
-            (refTagPointingToBranch) => refTagPointingToBranch.match(/(?:refs\/tags\/)(.*)((?:-ALIGN)|(?:\^{}))/)[1]
-        );
+        refTagsPointingToBranch = refTagsPointingToBranch.map((refTagPointingToBranch) => {
+            const match = refTagPointingToBranch.match(/(?:refs\/tags\/)(.*)((?:-ALIGN)|(?:\^{}))/);
+            return match ? match[1] : null;
+        });
 
         // Filter the sorted tags - only including tags that point to the branch
-        let tagsPointingToBranch: string[] = tags.filter((tag) => refTagsPointingToBranch.includes(tag));
+        let tagsPointingToBranch: string[] = tags.filter((tag) => refTagsPointingToBranch?.includes(tag));
 
         return tagsPointingToBranch;
     }
diff --git a/packages/sfp-cli/src/core/package/diff/PackageDiffImpl.ts b/packages/sfp-cli/src/core/package/diff/PackageDiffImpl.ts
index e620bf96c..89a954c1b 100644
--- a/packages/sfp-cli/src/core/package/diff/PackageDiffImpl.ts
+++ b/packages/sfp-cli/src/core/package/diff/PackageDiffImpl.ts
@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@ export class PackageDiffOptions {
     useLatestGitTags?:boolean=true;
     packagesMappedToLastKnownCommitId?: { [p: string]: string };
     pathToReplacementForceIgnore?: string;
+    useBranchCompare?: boolean = false;
+    branch?: string;
+    baseBranch?: string;
 }
 
 export default class PackageDiffImpl {
@@ -52,7 +55,14 @@ export default class PackageDiffImpl {
             // Get the list of modified files between the tag and HEAD refs
             let modified_files: string[];
             try {
-                modified_files = await git.diff([`${tag}`, `HEAD`, `--no-renames`, `--name-only`]);
+                if(this.diffOptions?.useBranchCompare)
+                {
+                 modified_files = await git.diff(['--name-only', `${this.diffOptions.baseBranch}...${this.diffOptions.branch}`]);
+                }
+                else
+                {
+                 modified_files = await git.diff([`${tag}`, `HEAD`, `--no-renames`, `--name-only`]);
+                }
             } catch (error) {
                 SFPLogger.log(COLOR_ERROR(`Unable to compute diff, The head of the branch is not reachable from the commit id ${tag}`));
                 SFPLogger.log(COLOR_ERROR(`Check your current branch (in case of build) or the scratch org in case of validate command`));