Re: See commits on remote repository

[Bryan Richardson <btricha@gmail.com>]

Sweetness... this will be most useful. Thanks to both you and Sylvain
for responding!

On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> 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
>