Subject: Re: git log of remote repositories.

From: Tomas Carnecky <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 21:43:02 +0200

On 4/14/10 9:08 PM, Aghiles wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010, Johannes Gilger  wrote:
>> AFAIK no, the operations have to be local.
>>
>> In order to see if there are any new changes to be pulled you could do
>> this: git fetch --dry-run
>
> It seems to me like a major restriction! Especially that I am tracking
> a remote branch ... No possibilities to do a diff or a log without fetching?
> Very sad. :(

If you are interested in the actual commits (say, you want to merge 
them), you need to fetch them anyway. And if you just want to look at 
the history, most repos provide a web interface which you can use.

tom