How to know if latest commit to master has been pushed to the remote?

Question

I have merged a branch in to master and now I can see that in my git log

Some time has passed and now I want to know whether I previously also pushed master (with that commit) to the remote. How can I tell if it has been pushed?

I can think of a few workaround such as recloning the repository elsewhere, or resetting and checking and then re-merging but I feel that there's probably a somewhat simpler answer.

fyi this is different from How can I know in git if a branch has been already merged into master? as I know it has been merged, just don't know about the remote push.

Answer 1

Do

> git status 

If the output is

# On branch master nothing to commit, working directory clean 

Then you have pushed the current commit.

If the output instead begins with

# On branch master # Your branch is ahead of 'origin/master' by 1 commit. #   (use "git push" to publish your local commits) 

Then you have a local commit that has not yet been pushed. You see this because the remote branch, origin/master, points to the commit that was last pushed to origin. However, your branch is ahead of 'origin/master', meaning that you have a local commit that has been created after the last pushed commit.

If the commit you are interested in is not the latest, then you can do

> git log --decorate --oneline 

to find out if the commit in question is before or after the commit pointed to by origin/master.
If the commit is after (higher up in the log than) origin/master, then it has not been pushed.