Re: How to check new commit availability without full fetch?

From: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>
Date: Jan 11, 2010, 07:31 UTC
Message-ID: <201001110831.28278.robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>
In-Reply-To: <ee2a733e1001100312j786108fct1b4c8abd0acc5afc@mail.gmail.com>

söndagen den 10 januari 2010 12.12.09 skrev  Leo Razoumov:

> Hi List,
> I am trying to find a way to check availability of new commits
> *before* doing fetch or pull. Unfortunately, neither fetch nor pull
> take "--dry-run" option (unlike push)

Fetch has --dry-run. It's a fairly new option. The drawback is that it still does the fetch, but it does not update the refs. If you re.run it again it'll be quicker.

A faster option is to use ls-remote, but you'll have to parse the data yourself and compare with your remote refs to see what refs has changed, and that will not tell you /what/ the changes are.

-- robin