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Re: Is it possible to list unpushed tags without accessing remote?

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Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date
Jun 26, 2014, 16:13 UTC
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On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 5:42 AM, Kirill Likhodedov <kirill.likhodedov@jetbrains.com> wrote:

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> 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.

You may be able to guess by looking at `git log --decorate upstream..` and seeing which tags, if any show up.

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  1. Kirill LikhodedovJun 26, 2014
  2. Shawn PearceJun 26, 2014
  3. Andreas SchwabJun 26, 2014
  4. Junio C HamanoJun 26, 2014
  5. Kirill LikhodedovJun 26, 2014
  6. Andreas SchwabJun 27, 2014

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