Subject: Re: how to find outstanding patches in non-linux-2.6 repositories ?

From: Tom Prince <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 18:26:59 -0700

On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 08:35:14PM +0100, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> "origin..HEAD" is a valid and fairly common range.
> "HEAD..origin" is not (well, it is, but it doesn't include any commits 
> since it's going backwards).
> 

It depends on what you are doing. When I update my git repository, I do

git fetch
git-whatchanged master..origin
git pull

to find out what changed since I last updated.