Re: git fetch: where are the downloaded objects stored?

> "Paolo Ciarrocchi" <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com> writes:
> > On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 5:29 PM, Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> wrote:
> >> If you have reflog enabled (it should be by default) then a good thing
> >> to remember is the @{1} notation.  For example, if the fetch updated the
> >> origin/master branch, then origin/master@{1} is what your origin/master
> >> was before being updated.  To see the difference between the previous
> >> and the current state of origin/master, you can do:
> >>
> >>        git diff origin/master@{1}..origin/master
> >>
> >> Or to see the list of new commits:
> >>
> >>        git log origin/master@{1}..origin/master
> >>
> >>        git log -p origin/master@{1}..origin/master
> >>
> >> Etc.
> >
> > Very nice, I didn't find in the documentation.
> > I'll read again the documents and if needed, I'll propose some new text.
> >
> >> This notation is a bit obnoxious and the re were suggestions about
> >> addind the equivalent origin/master@{1..} but that didn't materialize
> >> yet.
> >
> > Mybe it's just me but wouldn't be very nice to have a simple command
> > to look at what data have been used for updating the currente branch?
> > i.e.
> > git fetch
> > git diff -- fetch (which is an alias of git diff
> > origin/master@{1}..origin/master)
> >
> > And how about a repository which have reflogs disabled?
> 
> I'm also a newbie, and I think you are on a wrong road. Usually it's not
> that interesting what was downloaded. What is interesting is what is on
> 'origin/master' that is still missing from 'master'. For this I think
> you have:
> 
> $ git log master..origin