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

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SOSergei Organov <osv@javad.com>
Date
Mar 3, 2008, 17:18 UTC
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"Paolo Ciarrocchi" <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com> writes:
> On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 5:29 PM, Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> wrote:
>> On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote:
>>
>> > On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 4:21 PM, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> wrote:
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>> > How can I look to what I just downloaded?
>> > Should I simply do a git diff?
>>
>> If you have reflog enabled (it should be by default) then a good thing
>> to remember is the @{1} notation.  For example, if the fetch updated the
>> origin/master branch, then origin/master@{1} is what your origin/master
>> was before being updated.  To see the difference between the previous
>> and the current state of origin/master, you can do:
>>
>>        git diff origin/master@{1}..origin/master
>>
>> Or to see the list of new commits:
>>
>>        git log origin/master@{1}..origin/master
>>
>>        git log -p origin/master@{1}..origin/master
>>
>> Etc.
>
> Very nice, I didn't find in the documentation.
> I'll read again the documents and if needed, I'll propose some new text.
>
>> This notation is a bit obnoxious and the re were suggestions about
>> addind the equivalent origin/master@{1..} but that didn't materialize
>> yet.
>
> Mybe it's just me but wouldn't be very nice to have a simple command
> to look at what data have been used for updating the currente branch?
> i.e.
> git fetch
> git diff -- fetch (which is an alias of git diff
> origin/master@{1}..origin/master)
>
> And how about a repository which have reflogs disabled?

I'm also a newbie, and I think you are on a wrong road. Usually it's not that interesting what was downloaded. What is interesting is what is on 'origin/master' that is still missing from 'master'. For this I think you have:

$ git log master..origin
-- Sergei.
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  1. Paolo CiarrocchiMar 3, 2008
  2. Matthieu MoyMar 3, 2008
  3. Paolo CiarrocchiMar 3, 2008
  4. Matthieu MoyMar 3, 2008
  5. Paolo CiarrocchiMar 3, 2008
  6. Nicolas PitreMar 3, 2008
  7. Paolo CiarrocchiMar 3, 2008
  8. Sergei OrganovMar 3, 2008
  9. Nicolas PitreMar 3, 2008
  10. Nicolas PitreMar 3, 2008
  11. Paolo CiarrocchiMar 3, 2008
  12. Jakub NarebskiMar 3, 2008

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