On Fri, 5 Feb 2010, Timur Tabi wrote: > 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. You can't. You must perform a fetch and then use whatever method to compare with origin/master:foobar.py which is the file you're looking for. > Yeah, I'm not keen on performing an actual download, even if it's just a fetch. Why? It is not like if a fetch was terribly more costly than any method that could get the version of a file on the remote. Nicolas -- 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