Re: Question regarding git fetch

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 10:16 PM, Jeff King[off-list ref] wrote:

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 10:12:50PM +0000, Avery Pennarun wrote:

quoted

After all, if I *really* care about the prior state of the remote, I
can just make it a remote branch.  And if (as often happens) I just

Do you mean "local branch" here?

Yes.

quoted

want to know what's new in that ref since last time I merged, it's
simply

   git log master..origin/master

This works even if master has extra commits vs. origin/master, since
the double-dot invokes git-merge-base.

Well, ".." doesn't use git-merge-base. But yes, I actually do this,
except I do:

 gitk master...origin/master

Sorry, not my day for accuracy, it seems.  I use both, and I should
have remembered that the triple-dot is the one that worries about the
merge-base.

Have fun,

Avery