Git command to see if repository has changed (no diff)

Question

say I clone a git repo locally... time goes by and I want to see if anything has changed back at the origin... but i don't, necessarily, want to fetch or pull...yet.

what's the command for seeing a list of commits SINCE i last pulled...or just the fact that there HAVE been some commits since I last pulled?

i don't want overhead of diff in this case...

Answer 1

git remote show origin

Answer 2

Try:

git fetch --dry-run