From: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:18:26 GMT
Subject: Re: why no "git fetch --dry-run" ?
Message-ID: <20081121221826.GM21815@genesis.frugalware.org>
In-Reply-To: <ee2a733e0811211341j1e49fad7o64577605951fa5c0@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 04:41:57PM -0500, Leo Razoumov <slonik.az@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am curious why there is "git push --dry-run" and no "git fetch
> --dry-run" nor "git pull --dry-run". It would make sense to keep
> push/pull/fetch as symmetric as possible.
> For example, I just want to see which branches, if any, changed on a
> remote repository since my last fetch. "git fetch -v --dry-run" would
> be handy in this case.

Actually fetch - at a core level - isn't symmetric to push, the protocol
is completely different. I haven't checked the source, but I suppose
that the push protocol has "dry run" support, while the fetch one
doesn't have.