Is there a “git pull --dry-run” option in Git?

Question

Is there such a thing as git pull --dry-run to see how stuff will be merged before it messes up my working tree?

Right now I am doing:

git f         


        

Answer 1

You will need to fetch first to update your local origin/master

git fetch origin

Then you can do:

git diff --name-only origin/master

Will list the files that have changed.

git diff origin/master directory_foo/file_bar.m

Will list the line by line diff of file directory_foo/file_bar.m.