Ivan Zorin <ivan.a.zorin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello. I have not very hard question, but I don't know how to better do > it - could you tell me, please, does exist some way to check remote git > repository for updates without downloading any essential files? I > suppose, that such command should just type something like: "already > updated", if current working tree identical to remote repo, and > something like "there is some updates in remote repo", if remote repo > has some new commits and/or branches. Thanks. There aren't any commands to do it. What you could do is write a script based upon git ls-remote. A really simple one might be: #!/bin/sh remote=$1 o=.git/remote_cache.$remote n=$o.new$$ git ls-remote $remote >$n if [ -f $o ] then if diff $o $n >/dev/null then echo "No changes" else mv $n $o echo "Updates available" else mv $n $o echo "New remote remembered..." fi A much more complex one would actually rewrite refs/heads/ to the correct refs/remotes/ namespace on your local repository and compare the remote ref values to the local refs/remotes values. Patches for git fetch --pretend or something might be interesting. Though I recall a thread about this before on the MLand saying there was no point. Its not like you can see how big the download would be until after its over. -- Shawn. -- 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
