2008/11/21 Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > 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. > I wrote the patch for "push --dry-run" because I was more worried about messing up the central repository (which I can't fix) than messing up my local repository (which I can). It just needed a few checks added to send-pack to make it work. I guess it's not been done for fetch yet because nobody had that itch, shouldn't be too hard to write. Certainly, other people have asked for it. -Baz -- 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
