Re: Seeing differences at origin/branch?

On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 04:53:03PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote:

This is perhaps going to seem like a very CVS/SVN type of question,
but is there a way to see a list of differences between one's local
copy and the origin branch?  I'm after something analogous to "svn
status -u" really (yes, I know I could get my hands scorched for such
things.  :P).  Is this possible?

I've tried:

git-diff-tree -p origin/master

But that won't list changes waiting for me that I would get when I
issue a "git pull".

Use "git fetch" to fetch the remote changes, but not merge them into
your local tracked branches.  "git pull" basically just does "git fetch"
then "git merge" into your current branch if it is tracking a remote
branch.

You might as well use "git diff" as well, as "git-diff-tree" is
definitely plumbing.

% git fetch origin
...
% git diff origin/master

-bcd