Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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. Doesn't that worry us if it really is quicker? If --dry-run doesn't update the refs, why do the objects that were transferred by them not get asked the next time? There must be a bug somewhere, but it is getting late already, so I'll leave it to experts in the transfer area to figure it out... -- 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