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From: "Neshama Parhoti" <pneshama@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: no --dry-run to git-pull ?
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 18:26:02 +0300
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On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 4:59 PM, Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 04:56:27PM +0300, Neshama Parhoti <pneshama@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Isn't there a way to do a --dry-run with git-pull ?
>
> Not really. But you can do a 'git fetch origin', then a
> 'git log master..origin/master', and it'll tell you what changes will be
> merged if you do a 'git merge origin/master'.
>
> NOTES:
>
> 1) Replace origin and master with your repomte and branch.
>
> 2) If this sounds cryptic for you, then it might be an important info
> that by default a pull is a fetch + a merge.

What puzzles me is the origin keyword. Is it set only if I initially
cloned a repo ?
Because in my case, I have just rsync'ed a repo to another station, so
I fear it will have no meaning in my case.
Thank you
>