From: Santi Béjar <sbejar@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 13:30:56 GMT
Subject: Re: What did I just fetch?
Message-ID: <8aa486160701310530t6325ea2ah2e58bc250a37ce97@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <17856.37307.324767.617892@lisa.zopyra.com>

On 1/31/07, Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com> wrote:
> When updating in cvs, I get a list of files changed by the update.
>
> How can I do this in git when fetching into a bare repo?
>
> % GIT_DIR=. git fetch git://source/project
> remote: Generating pack...
> remote: Done counting 18 objects.
> remote: Result has 10 objects.
> remote: Deltifying 10 objects.
> remote:  100% (10/10) done
> Unpacking 10 objects
> remote: Total 10, written 10 (delta 6), reused 7 (delta 3)
>  100% (10/10) done

You are just fetching the objects, but you are not storing the tip of
the branch (in this case HEAD) anywhere.

Use the verbose flag (-v) to get the commit hash

$ git fetch -v ${remote}
....
* fetched ${remote}
  commit: ${hash}

Santi