How to preview git-pull without doing fetch?

Question

Is it even possible?

Basically, there\'s a remote repository from which I pull using just:

git pull

Now, I\'d like to preview what

Answer 1

I use these two commands and I can see the files to change.

1. First executing git fetch, it gives output like this (part of output):

   ...
   72f8433..c8af041  develop -> origin/develop
   ...

This operation gives us two commit IDs, first is the old one, and second will be the new.

2. Then compare these two commits using git diff

   git diff 72f8433..c8af041 | grep "diff --git"

This command will list the files that will be updated:

diff --git a/app/controller/xxxx.php b/app/controller/xxxx.php
diff --git a/app/view/yyyy.php b/app/view/yyyy.php

For example app/controller/xxxx.php and app/view/yyyy.php will be updated.

Comparing two commits using git diff prints all updated files with changed lines, but with grep it searches and gets only the lines contains diff --git from output.