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Re: Is it possible to list unpushed tags without accessing remote?

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Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date
Jun 26, 2014, 16:54 UTC
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Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> writes:
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> On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 5:42 AM, Kirill Likhodedov
> <kirill.likhodedov@jetbrains.com> wrote:
>> is it possible to know which tags are not yet pushed to a remote via a completely local command?
>>
>> (e.g. the list of unpushed _commits_ may be received by ‘git log <upstream>..’)
>>
>> I know it is possible to execute 'git ls-remote’ or 'git push --dry-run’, but both ask the remote server.
>> I’m almost sure that the answer is “NO”, but want to receive a confirmation from Git gurus :)
>
> No. The client doesn't track what tags the remote has.

Not by default, but it is easy to configure your clone to fetch tags to a separate namespace.

Andreas.
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  1. Kirill LikhodedovJun 26, 2014
  2. Shawn PearceJun 26, 2014
  3. Andreas SchwabJun 26, 2014
  4. Junio C HamanoJun 26, 2014
  5. Kirill LikhodedovJun 26, 2014
  6. Andreas SchwabJun 27, 2014

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