Re: git fetch: where are the downloaded objects stored?

[Sergei Organov <osv@javad.com>]

"Paolo Ciarrocchi" <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com> writes:
> On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 5:29 PM, Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> wrote:
>> On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote:
>>
>> > On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 4:21 PM, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> wrote:

[...]

>> > How can I look to what I just downloaded?
>> > Should I simply do a git diff?
>>
>> If you have reflog enabled (it should be by default) then a good thing
>> to remember is the @{1} notation.  For example, if the fetch updated the
>> origin/master branch, then origin/master@{1} is what your origin/master
>> was before being updated.  To see the difference between the previous
>> and the current state of origin/master, you can do:
>>
>>        git diff origin/master@{1}..origin/master
>>
>> Or to see the list of new commits:
>>
>>        git log origin/master@{1}..origin/master
>>
>>        git log -p origin/master@{1}..origin/master
>>
>> Etc.
>
> Very nice, I didn't find in the documentation.
> I'll read again the documents and if needed, I'll propose some new text.
>
>> This notation is a bit obnoxious and the re were suggestions about
>> addind the equivalent origin/master@{1..} but that didn't materialize
>> yet.
>
> Mybe it's just me but wouldn't be very nice to have a simple command
> to look at what data have been used for updating the currente branch?
> i.e.
> git fetch
> git diff -- fetch (which is an alias of git diff
> origin/master@{1}..origin/master)
>
> And how about a repository which have reflogs disabled?

I'm also a newbie, and I think you are on a wrong road. Usually it's not
that interesting what was downloaded. What is interesting is what is on
'origin/master' that is still missing from 'master'. For this I think
you have:

$ git log master..origin

-- Sergei.