From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 16:54:22 GMT
Subject: Re: Is it possible to list unpushed tags without accessing remote?
Message-ID: <874mz76281.fsf@igel.home>
In-Reply-To: <CAJo=hJvdMURuaEZA3XEWE_Uuq8QRZ+mt8K2H8XrbTuZsVX9gKQ@mail.gmail.com>

Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> writes:

> 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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