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Re: no --dry-run to git-pull ?

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NPNeshama Parhoti <pneshama@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 4, 2008, 15:26 UTC
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On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 4:59 PM, Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org> wrote:
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> On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 04:56:27PM +0300, Neshama Parhoti <pneshama@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Isn't there a way to do a --dry-run with git-pull ?
>
> Not really. But you can do a 'git fetch origin', then a
> 'git log master..origin/master', and it'll tell you what changes will be
> merged if you do a 'git merge origin/master'.
>
> NOTES:
>
> 1) Replace origin and master with your repomte and branch.
>
> 2) If this sounds cryptic for you, then it might be an important info
> that by default a pull is a fetch + a merge.

What puzzles me is the origin keyword. Is it set only if I initially cloned a repo ? Because in my case, I have just rsync'ed a repo to another station, so I fear it will have no meaning in my case. Thank you

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