From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: How to check new commit availability without full fetch? Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 12:38:07 -0800 Message-ID: <7v8wc5itlc.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Leo Razoumov , Git Mailing List To: Nicolas Pitre X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Jan 10 21:40:49 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NU4ad-00016D-0G for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Jan 2010 21:40:47 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752511Ab0AJUiS (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Jan 2010 15:38:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752144Ab0AJUiR (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Jan 2010 15:38:17 -0500 Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:41028 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752108Ab0AJUiR (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Jan 2010 15:38:17 -0500 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC71B8FC2C; Sun, 10 Jan 2010 15:38:15 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=K8LJyfG3NAM5p1ZAwnU+rRa4EuA=; b=cUOLkG GO9WaxCJ8gwRurGvMvcb9E8nyAxJDtLykisPY3R4YoxLz4XsYa7QHTQ2NVB/Sk6G al31G4Tscbx2Zviw45qv/5fHfNqG8pbDXnNFlqmFUA3mE+x4k/rzPOCBVIU+4fix vGcQ8IW1wZf1KUDi1O8vc0UVH/75XNLoz8nc0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=MoCrxK3rUoGJsUQTxQaGfJ/SXxJhHs7B kTWIaT13mbxKxOUss0DpNNTAXVpPLS4JjxraETqTGFVMU7BPrbO/8UajVRhcEhdg vNotR/jr6t7whMMce/Us5SL+gv3rNQ5be5EjcbeCUwkQJxzPHj+peMne9IU8KtPB hENG50UJyxo= Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix. (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C6C58FC2B; Sun, 10 Jan 2010 15:38:12 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C208E8FC28; Sun, 10 Jan 2010 15:38:08 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Nicolas Pitre's message of "Sun\, 10 Jan 2010 15\:13\:49 -0500 \(EST\)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 122CB4E2-FE28-11DE-B4AE-9D59EE7EF46B-77302942!a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Nicolas Pitre writes: >> I am sure I am not the only one with such an itch. > > Maybe you are. There is very little point knowing that the remote repo > has new commits if you're not going to fetch them, so I don't understand > why you need this. A feel good factor is in play? IOW, "I am short of time, so I won't be able to really afford to 'git pull' and test the result of re-integrating my changes to what happened on the other end. If I can learn that there is nothing happening over there, then I won't have to do anything and know that I am up to date."