On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 04:41:57PM -0500, Leo Razoumov <slonik.az@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I am curious why there is "git push --dry-run" and no "git fetch > --dry-run" nor "git pull --dry-run". It would make sense to keep > push/pull/fetch as symmetric as possible. > For example, I just want to see which branches, if any, changed on a > remote repository since my last fetch. "git fetch -v --dry-run" would > be handy in this case. Actually fetch - at a core level - isn't symmetric to push, the protocol is completely different. I haven't checked the source, but I suppose that the push protocol has "dry run" support, while the fetch one doesn't have.
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