From: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 16:13:53 GMT
Subject: Re: Is it possible to list unpushed tags without accessing remote?
Message-ID: <CAJo=hJvdMURuaEZA3XEWE_Uuq8QRZ+mt8K2H8XrbTuZsVX9gKQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <BAA3119F-8351-4BFD-B42A-C96E4C7A1440@jetbrains.com>

On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 5:42 AM, Kirill Likhodedov
<kirill.likhodedov@jetbrains.com> wrote:
> 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.