Re: How to check new commit availability without full fetch?

söndagen den 10 januari 2010 12.12.09 skrev  Leo Razoumov:

Hi List,
I am trying to find a way to check availability of new commits
*before* doing fetch or pull. Unfortunately, neither fetch nor pull
take "--dry-run" option (unlike push)

Fetch has --dry-run. It's a fairly new option. The drawback is that it
still does the fetch, but it does not update the refs. If you re.run it
again it'll be quicker.

A faster option is to use ls-remote, but you'll have to parse the data
yourself and compare with your remote refs to see what refs has changed,
and that will not tell you /what/ the changes are.

-- robin