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How to see what will be merged after git fetch

My question is after doing a git fetch how can I see what is what git actually fetched from origin? I have my guesses by using diff but I don't know exactly how I can do it.

Solution

  • Due to the fact that after a git fetch the fetched references are in origin/master (just an example, if you have more branches then they are updated as well as origin/<name> and you can apply the following commands as well) you have several options here:

    1. Display file names only that have been changed

    git diff --name-only origin/master

    2. Display file status only

    git diff --name-status origin/master

    3. Really show what changed

     git diff origin/master

    Or you use git show for this task: git show --oneline --name-only master..origin/master

    And for completeness you can use the following command to count commits that where fetched.

    git rev-list --count HEAD..origin/master