Git How to check if a local repo is up to date

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I would like to know if my local repo is up to date  and if not  ideally  I would like to see the changes    How could I check this without doing git fetch or git pull

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tried to format my answer  but couldn t Please stackoverflow team  why posting answer is so hard   neverthless   answer  git fetch origin git status   you ll see result like  Your branch is behind  origin master  by 9 commits   to update to remote changes   git pull

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You must run git fetch before you can compare your local repository against the files on your remote server  This command only updates your remote tracking branches and will not affect your worktree until you call git merge or git pull  To see the difference between your local branch and your remote tracking branch once you ve fetched you can use git diff or git cherry as explained here

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you can use git status -uno to check if your local branch is up-to-date with the origin one

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git remote show origin   Result   HEAD branch  master   Remote branch      master tracked   Local branch configured for  git pull       master merges with remote master   Local ref configured for  git push       master pushes to master  local out of date   lt -------

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First use git remote update  to bring your remote refs up to date  Then you can do one of several things  such as   git status -uno will tell you whether the branch you are tracking is ahead  behind or has diverged  If it says nothing  the local and remote are the same  Sample result    On branch DEV Your branch is behind  origin DEV  by 7 commits  and can be fast-forwarded   use  quot git pull quot  to update your local branch    git show-branch  master will show you the commits in all of the branches whose names end in  master   eg master and origin master    If you use -v with git remote update  git remote -v update  you can see which branches got updated  so you don t really need any further commands

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If you use   git fetch --dry-run -v  lt link to remote git repo gt    you ll get feedback about whether it is up-to-date  So basically  you just need to add the  verbose  option to the answer given before

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Not really - but I don t see how git fetch would hurt as it won t change any of your local branches

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Try git fetch --dry-run  The manual  git help fetch  says   --dry-run Show what would be done  without making any changes

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git remote show origin   Enter passphrase for key     ssh id rsa    remote origin   Fetch URL  git github com mamaque systems git   Push  URL  git github com mamaque systems git     HEAD branch  main   Remote branch      main tracked    Local ref configured for  git push          main pushes to main  up-to-date          Both are up to date       main pushes to main  fast-forwardable    Remote can be updated with Local       main pushes to main  local out of date   Local can be update with Remote

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Another  alternative is to view the status of the remote branch using  git show-branch remote branch to use it as a comparison you could see git show-branch  branch to see the branch in all remotes as well as your repository  check out this answer for more https   stackoverflow com a 3278427 2711378

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This is impossible without using git fetch or git pull  How can you know whether or not the repository is  up-to-date  without going to the remote repository to see what  up-to-date  even means

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You ll need to issue two commands    git fetch origin git status

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