Re: how to check remote git repo for updates without pull/fetch

David> Your script will report false positives if you run that in a branch David> where you've made local commits since git log's output will list a David> commit that's not on the remote side.

Ah.  Yes.  I forgot to mention that.  Good catch.

I wrote the script specifically for use with the repos created by Gentoo's git eclass (used when installing packages from git repos rather than from tars or the like). As such, it only needed to deal with pristine clones.

-JimC