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

Gits gives us more tools to check an "update". First you have to "download" the up-to-date state of the repository:

git fetch

Now you can get the list of the changed files:

git log --name-status ..origin/master

Additionaly, you can see the full list of changes with diff:

git diff ..origin/master

Meaning of the starting letters are: Added (A), Copied (C), Deleted (D), Modified (M), Renamed (R), changed (T), are Unmerged (U), are Unknown (X), or have had their pairing Broken (B)