From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Todd A. Jacobs" Subject: View remote logs? Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:19:07 -0700 Message-ID: <20081014071907.GP16999@penguin.codegnome.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Oct 14 09:52:51 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Kpei3-0003Zg-5V for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 14 Oct 2008 09:52:51 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754248AbYJNHvi (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Oct 2008 03:51:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753756AbYJNHvi (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Oct 2008 03:51:38 -0400 Received: from que21.charter.net ([209.225.8.22]:52016 "EHLO que21.charter.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752578AbYJNHvh (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Oct 2008 03:51:37 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 1396 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 14 Oct 2008 03:51:37 EDT Received: from aarprv06.charter.net ([10.20.200.76]) by mta31.charter.net (InterMail vM.7.08.03.00 201-2186-126-20070710) with ESMTP id <20081014071910.KHGA4798.mta31.charter.net@aarprv06.charter.net> for ; Tue, 14 Oct 2008 03:19:10 -0400 Received: from penguin.codegnome.org ([71.83.124.90]) by aarprv06.charter.net with ESMTP id <20081014071909.NPV128.aarprv06.charter.net@penguin.codegnome.org> for ; Tue, 14 Oct 2008 03:19:09 -0400 Received: by penguin.codegnome.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3F85237CAB; Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:19:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: by penguin.codegnome.org (tmda-sendmail, from uid 1000); Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:19:09 -0700 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.12 (Macallan) Mail-Followup-To: git@vger.kernel.org X-Chzlrs: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: I've Googled around, and tried some experiments with likely-looking tools like git log, git diff, and git ls-remote, but they only seem to operate on the local repository. In particular, there doesn't seem to be an obvious way to view the commit logs on a remote repository without pulling it first. On an intuitive level, it seems like "git log origin" would allow me to see what someone has committed to a remote repository so I can decide whether it's something I want to pull. Even something like "git diff HEAD origin" would let me know if there were changes I might want to pull before doing so. Am I missing something obvious? Is it possible to use the CLI to view remote logs, or is the only choice to pull everything? -- "Oh, look: rocks!" -- Doctor Who, "Destiny of the Daleks"