Re: See commits on remote repository

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 12:54:55AM +0200, Sylvain Rabot wrote:

> > For example, say I have repository X, which I do a bare clone on to
> > create repository Y for someone else to work on (effectively forking
> > repo X). Is there a way for me to see, from repository X, what commits
> > have been made to repository Y?
> > 
> $ git remote update
> $ git log origin/<branch>
> $ gitk origin/<branch>

That's backwards. He's in the parent repo and wants to see what the
child did.

The answer is "no, not automatically. Git is fully distributed and
repository X knows nothing about repository Y that was cloned from it".

But also because git is fully distributed, you can simply treat the
cloned child like any other remote:

  git remote add y /path/to/y
  git remote update ;# or just "git fetch y"
  git log y/<branch> ;# what happened in y's <branch>
  gitk y/<branch>...<branch> ;# differences since y forked

-Peff