From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 19:04:29 GMT
Subject: Re: Is it possible to list unpushed tags without accessing remote?
Message-ID: <xmqqlhsj4hmq.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <874mz76281.fsf@igel.home>

Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:

> Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> writes:
>
>> 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.
>
> Not by default, but it is easy to configure your clone to fetch tags to
> a separate namespace.

But then in order to learn what tags the remote has, you need to
talk to the remote and it won't be "complately a local" operation
anymore, no?