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 may be late to the party, but this is something which bugged me for too long. In my experience, I would rather want to see which changes are pending than update my working copy and deal with those changes.

This goes in the ~/.gitconfig file:

[alias]
        diffpull=!git fetch && git diff HEAD..@{u}

It fetches the current branch, then does a diff between the working copy and this fetched branch. So you should only see the changes that would come with git pull.