Re: How to figure out what 'git push' would do?

From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 5, 2007, 17:33 UTC
Message-ID: <20070805173340.GA3159@steel.home>
In-Reply-To: <267CDD46-549B-4BFE-B993-80CD1CFE75D8@zib.de>

Steffen Prohaska, Sun, Aug 05, 2007 13:37:34 +0200:

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> How can I check what a 'git push' would do, without
> actually doing it?
> 
> Is there something like 'git push --dry-run', similar
> to 'rsync --dry-run'?

No. It is often safe to just do git-push, unless you have naive developers doing pull every time some ref in your shared repo changes *and* expecting the result to compile (typical for CVS way of work). git-push will not overwrite anything, it always only forwards history.

For the case you really want to know what the changes on remote repo will be it is possible to fetch them into the local repo first and compare with what you will push:

    $ git fetch git://remote/path/REPO master:refs/remotes/REPO/master
    $ gitk local..REPO/master

It gives you all possible information, which may be worth that bit of work. Or, if you have all the remote configuration ready, it can be just:

    $ git fetch
    $ gitk local..REPO/master