Re: git fetch: where are the downloaded objects stored?

>  You still think in terms of "data used to update a branch".  There is no
>  such direct relation between the fetched data (objects) and the updated
>  branch heads.  What you do when listing the commits found between
>  origin/master@{1} and origin/master@{0} (or simply origin/master wich
>  is equivalent to origin/master@{0}) does not necessarily correspond to
>  the data you received during the fetch.  For example, it is possible
>  that half of those commits were already part of another branch in your
>  repository, hence the fetch operation won't download them again.  Still,
>  the origin/master branch now has acquired them all which wasn't the case
>  before.  To really _see_ the actually received data during a fetch
>  requires internal Git knowledge and digging in the pack directory --
>  there is no (need for any) UI for that.

>  > And how about a repository which have reflogs disabled?
>
>  Well, just re-enable them.  ;-)
>
>  Since they're on by default, if you turned them off then you surely know
>  what you're doing and why.