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Re: How can I tell if anything was fetched?

From
Enrico Weigelt <enrico.weigelt@vnc.biz>
Date
Oct 11, 2012, 18:29 UTC
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<m28vbdkley.fsf@igel.home>
> I think you'd only need to record the state of all refs (eg. the
> output
> of `git for-each-ref') to reliably detect any changes.

I would just record the output of `git ls-remote . | sort -u` somewhere and compare it next time (maybe you even wanna grep for the desired ref namespaces).

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