On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:19:07AM -0700, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > I've Googled around, and tried some experiments with likely-looking > tools like git log, git diff, and git ls-remote, but they only seem to > operate on the local repository. In particular, there doesn't seem to be > an obvious way to view the commit logs on a remote repository without > pulling it first. Remember that pull is really "fetch + merge". So you can do just the fetch part without affecting your local branches. > On an intuitive level, it seems like "git log origin" would allow me to > see what someone has committed to a remote repository so I can decide It does. It just uses the remote tracking branch for "origin" instead of contacting the remote. > whether it's something I want to pull. Even something like "git diff > HEAD origin" would let me know if there were changes I might want to > pull before doing so. And that works, too. Once fetched, you can use "origin" as you would any other ref. -Peff -- 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
