Re: [PATCH] ls-remote: add "--diff" option to show only refs that differ

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Feb 2, 2017, 21:19 UTC
Message-ID: <CA+55aFy27uEXX2FfQB7q5SWAaV-E0etCrBf0MnFRzARb1P2CaA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqfujws3pl.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 1:05 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> Another case I can think of that "--diff" would help is when you are
> inspecting your own mirror (but that can be seen as a special case
> of the "they have copies of yours plus their own", if you think of
> your mirror as "them" and the difference is "being stale").

Yeah, that's actually what I did for some testing (not having stale branches, but just to check the expected differences for my upstream kernel repo with my local pulls that I haven't pushed out yet).

The actual real use-case is something that only happens for me only very occasionally. I end up sending out "did you forget to push" emails perhaps a couple of times every release, but every time I do I will have gone and done a ls-remote on their repo..

                     Linus