From: Timur Tabi Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:56:56 GMT Subject: Re: How can I tell if a file has been updated upstream? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20100205164407.GA27498@spearce.org> On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > You can't tell a particular file, but you could use something like > `git ls-remote refs/heads/master` to see what the branch is at, $ git ls-remote refs/heads/master fatal: 'refs/heads/master' does not appear to be a git repository fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly So maybe you meant this: $ git ls-remote ssh://git.am.freescale.net/git/timur/bin refs/heads/master 20fbe12069038057cbd0d66c5a673956f7792c7d refs/heads/master I can use this to compare with the local HEAD. However, this only tells me that the repository as a whole has changed. I was hoping there would be a way to see if just the one file has change. I.e. how can I get the HEAD of a *file* in a remote repository. > I do this in repo, only I run `git fetch` once per day for the > end-user.  That way the objects are local, and I can use a local > check to see if there are updates that need to be pulled into the > executable working directory. Yeah, I'm not keen on performing an actual download, even if it's just a fetch. -- Timur Tabi Linux kernel developer at Freescale