söndagen den 10 januari 2010 12.12.09 skrev Leo Razoumov: > Hi List, > I am trying to find a way to check availability of new commits > *before* doing fetch or pull. Unfortunately, neither fetch nor pull > take "--dry-run" option (unlike push) Fetch has --dry-run. It's a fairly new option. The drawback is that it still does the fetch, but it does not update the refs. If you re.run it again it'll be quicker. A faster option is to use ls-remote, but you'll have to parse the data yourself and compare with your remote refs to see what refs has changed, and that will not tell you /what/ the changes are. -- robin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html