Re: Seeing differences at origin/branch?

[bdowning@lavos.net (Brian Downing)]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 04:53:03PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote:
> This is perhaps going to seem like a very CVS/SVN type of question,
> but is there a way to see a list of differences between one's local
> copy and the origin branch?  I'm after something analogous to "svn
> status -u" really (yes, I know I could get my hands scorched for such
> things.  :P).  Is this possible?
> 
> I've tried:
> 
> git-diff-tree -p origin/master
> 
> But that won't list changes waiting for me that I would get when I
> issue a "git pull".

Use "git fetch" to fetch the remote changes, but not merge them into
your local tracked branches.  "git pull" basically just does "git fetch"
then "git merge" into your current branch if it is tracking a remote
branch.

You might as well use "git diff" as well, as "git-diff-tree" is
definitely plumbing.

% git fetch origin
...
% git diff origin/master

-bcd