On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 1:05 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Another case I can think of that "--diff" would help is when you are
> inspecting your own mirror (but that can be seen as a special case
> of the "they have copies of yours plus their own", if you think of
> your mirror as "them" and the difference is "being stale").
Yeah, that's actually what I did for some testing (not having stale
branches, but just to check the expected differences for my upstream
kernel repo with my local pulls that I haven't pushed out yet).
The actual real use-case is something that only happens for me only
very occasionally. I end up sending out "did you forget to push"
emails perhaps a couple of times every release, but every time I do I
will have gone and done a ls-remote on their repo..
Linus