From: Tom Prince <tom.prince@ualberta.net>
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 01:26:59 GMT
Subject: Re: how to find outstanding patches in non-linux-2.6 repositories ?
Message-ID: <20060104012659.GA2353@socrates>
In-Reply-To: <43BAD1F2.8040209@op5.se>

On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 08:35:14PM +0100, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> "origin..HEAD" is a valid and fairly common range.
> "HEAD..origin" is not (well, it is, but it doesn't include any commits 
> since it's going backwards).
> 

It depends on what you are doing. When I update my git repository, I do

git fetch
git-whatchanged master..origin
git pull

to find out what changed since I last updated.