Subject: Re: Is it possible to list unpushed tags without accessing remote?

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 12:04:29 -0700

Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]> writes:

> Shawn Pearce <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 5:42 AM, Kirill Likhodedov
>> <[email-masked]> wrote:
>>> is it possible to know which tags are not yet pushed to a remote via a completely local command?
>>>
>>> (e.g. the list of unpushed _commits_ may be received by ‘git log <upstream>..’)
>>>
>>> I know it is possible to execute 'git ls-remote’ or 'git push --dry-run’, but both ask the remote server.
>>> I’m almost sure that the answer is “NO”, but want to receive a confirmation from Git gurus :)
>>
>> No. The client doesn't track what tags the remote has.
>
> Not by default, but it is easy to configure your clone to fetch tags to
> a separate namespace.

But then in order to learn what tags the remote has, you need to
talk to the remote and it won't be "complately a local" operation
anymore, no?