Re: why no "git fetch --dry-run" ?

On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 04:41:57PM -0500, Leo Razoumov [off-list ref] wrote:

I am curious why there is "git push --dry-run" and no "git fetch
--dry-run" nor "git pull --dry-run". It would make sense to keep
push/pull/fetch as symmetric as possible.
For example, I just want to see which branches, if any, changed on a
remote repository since my last fetch. "git fetch -v --dry-run" would
be handy in this case.

Actually fetch - at a core level - isn't symmetric to push, the protocol
is completely different. I haven't checked the source, but I suppose
that the push protocol has "dry run" support, while the fetch one
doesn't have.