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

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jan 10, 2010, 20:38 UTC
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Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> writes:
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>> I am sure I am not the only one with such an itch.
>
> Maybe you are. There is very little point knowing that the remote repo 
> has new commits if you're not going to fetch them, so I don't understand 
> why you need this.

A feel good factor is in play? IOW, "I am short of time, so I won't be able to really afford to 'git pull' and test the result of re-integrating my changes to what happened on the other end. If I can learn that there is nothing happening over there, then I won't have to do anything and know that I am up to date."

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  6. Tay Ray ChuanJan 11, 2010
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