git equivalent of svn status -u

Question

What\'s the git equivalent of svn status -u or more verbose svn status --show-updates. The svn status --show-updates command shows th

Answer 1

You can use git ls-remote to list the SHA of references in a remote repository; so, you can see if there are any changes by comparing the output of:

$ git show-ref origin/master     # <-- Where this repo thinks "origin/master" is
5bad423ae8d9055d989a66598d3c4473dbe97f8f refs/remotes/origin/master
$ git ls-remote origin master    # <-- Where "origin" thinks "master" is
060bbe2125ec5e236a6c6eaed2e715b0328a9106    refs/heads/master

If they differ, then there are changes to fetch:

$ git remote update
Fetching origin
...
From github.com:xxxx/yyyy
5bad423..060bbe2  master     -> origin/master