Re: View remote logs?

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:19:07AM -0700, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:

I've Googled around, and tried some experiments with likely-looking
tools like git log, git diff, and git ls-remote, but they only seem to
operate on the local repository. In particular, there doesn't seem to be
an obvious way to view the commit logs on a remote repository without
pulling it first.

Remember that pull is really "fetch + merge". So you can do just the
fetch part without affecting your local branches.

On an intuitive level, it seems like "git log origin" would allow me to
see what someone has committed to a remote repository so I can decide

It does. It just uses the remote tracking branch for "origin" instead of
contacting the remote.

whether it's something I want to pull. Even something like "git diff
HEAD origin" would let me know if there were changes I might want to
pull before doing so.

And that works, too. Once fetched, you can use "origin" as you would any
other ref.

-Peff