On 2014-09-06 16:42 +0200, lee wrote:
> When I run 'git diff', I don't get any output unless I have made local
> changes which aren't committed yet. I'm not sure about 'git status':
>
>
> [~/inst/emacs/emacs-git/emacs] git status
> On branch master
> Your branch and 'origin/master' have diverged,
> and have 9 and 51 different commits each, respectively.
> (use "git pull" to merge the remote branch into yours)
>
> Untracked files:
> [...]
>
>
> I have not made 9 commits to my local copy, so this is a confusing
> message (but IIRC I did run 'git fetch' earlier to see if I could get
> any useful info).
Even if you have not made any local changes, such things happen if the
remote branch has been rebased.
> I'd find it hard to believe that there is no reasonable way to check for
> new commits that have been made to a remote repo. Git can't be that
> bad, can it? (Running 'git diff' for this is not reasonable, and
> keeping multiple copies of repos isn't, either.)
How about "git fetch --dry-run"?
Cheers,
Sven
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