From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 06:33:08 GMT
Subject: Re: VCS comparison table
Message-ID: <20061018063308.GB3507@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20061017062341.8a5c8530.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>

On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 06:23:41AM -0400, Sean wrote:

> The "bzr missing" command sounds like a handy one.  
> 
> Someone on the xorg mailing list was recently lamenting that git does not
> have an easy way to compare a local branch to a remote one.  While this
> turns out to not be a big problem in git, it might be nice to have such
> a command.

What's wrong with:

  git-fetch
  gitk master...origin

The git model is to do operations on local refs and objects, so the
fetch is a natural part of that. The only downside I see is that you
actually end up fetching the data rather than simply peeking at where
the remote is. But a useful comparison will include at least grabbing
the commit objects, and probably the tree objects (to do diffs) anyway.

-Peff