Re: history missing

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 8, 2010, 09:02 UTC
Message-ID: <20101108090230.GC2430@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikFB5HNOmg0iTdjHxtrhU9vdua5O8btgFzpg-2F@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Vitaliy,

Vitaliy Semochkin wrote:

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> I cloned a remote repository
> to check recent changes in origin/master I do:
> git fetch origin master
> git log origin master
> 
> recently I found out that log doesn't show recent commits

Yes, this can be confusing.

The "git fetch" command can be used in two ways: to update remote-tracking branches and to grab some particular branch (or other ref) quickly.

Updating remote-tracking branches ---------------------------------

Use "git fetch <remote>", or "git fetch --all" if you want to update all remote-tracking branches.

Inspecting a particular branch ------------------------------

Use "git fetch <remote> <branch>"; this will fetch that branch and store it as FETCH_HEAD. You can "git log FETCH_HEAD", "git merge FETCH_HEAD", etc, to interact with the branch head you just downloaded.

If you want to fetch a branch to a local branch, you could use

	git fetch <remote> <branch>
	git branch <local-branch-name> FETCH_HEAD

but there is also a shorter way to write that:

	git fetch <remote> <branch>:<local-branch-name>

This form is especially useful for grabbing a subtree of the branch hierarchy all at once:

	git fetch junio refs/heads/sg/*:gabor/*

The "git fetch <remote>" form is syntactic sugar for this syntax. The 'fetch' lines in .git/config describe what remote:local ref specifiers will be implicitly added to the command line after the name of a configured remote repository.

See the "git fetch" manual for details and examples.

Hope that helps, Jonathan