Re: View remote logs?

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Oct 14, 2008, 08:10 UTC
Message-ID: <20081014081024.GA9344@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20081014071907.GP16999@penguin.codegnome.org>

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:19:07AM -0700, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:

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> I've Googled around, and tried some experiments with likely-looking
> tools like git log, git diff, and git ls-remote, but they only seem to
> operate on the local repository. In particular, there doesn't seem to be
> an obvious way to view the commit logs on a remote repository without
> pulling it first.

Remember that pull is really "fetch + merge". So you can do just the fetch part without affecting your local branches.

> On an intuitive level, it seems like "git log origin" would allow me to
> see what someone has committed to a remote repository so I can decide

It does. It just uses the remote tracking branch for "origin" instead of contacting the remote.

> whether it's something I want to pull. Even something like "git diff
> HEAD origin" would let me know if there were changes I might want to
> pull before doing so.

And that works, too. Once fetched, you can use "origin" as you would any other ref.

-Peff