On 2014-09-07 02:01 +0200, lee wrote: > Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> writes: > >> 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.
That being said, the branches in the Emacs git repository on Savannah don't get rebased AFAIK. > Does this mean that I cannot rely on any of the output of 'git status' > to decide whether there were commits or not? Commits where, on your local branch or on the remote one? >> How about "git fetch --dry-run"? > > That doesn't seem to do a dry run: > > > [~/inst/emacs/emacs-git/emacs] git fetch --dry-run > remote: Counting objects: 35, done. > remote: Compressing objects: 100% (19/19), done. > remote: Total 19 (delta 17), reused 0 (delta 0) > Unpacking objects: 100% (19/19), done. >>From git://git.savannah.gnu.org/emacs > bf72a39..b64cc38 master -> origin/master > bf72a39..b64cc38 trunk -> origin/trunk > [~/inst/emacs/emacs-git/emacs] git fetch --dry-run >>From git://git.savannah.gnu.org/emacs > bf72a39..b64cc38 master -> origin/master > bf72a39..b64cc38 trunk -> origin/trunk > [~/inst/emacs/emacs-git/emacs] > > > The first run compresses and unpacks some objects while the second one > immediately after the first one does not. This must mean that something > did change by performing a dry run. Correct, contrary to what the manpage says "git fetch --dry-run" still downloads a pack file with the objects. It just does not update any refs. Cheers, Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87r3znaitn....@turtle.gmx.de