Preview a Git push

Question

How can I see which commits are actually going to be pushed to a remote repository?

As far as I know, whenever I pull master from the remote repository, commits are likely to be generated, even if they're empty.

This causes the local master to be 'forward' even if there is really nothing to push.

Now, if I try (from master):

git cherry origin master 

I have an idea of what's going to be pushed, though this also display some commits that I've already pushed. Is there a way to display only the new content that's going to be pushed?

Answer 1

Remember origin/master is a ref that points to the head of the master branch on the remote named origin at the last pull, so you could use a command such as

$ git log origin/master..master 

You could use git-preview-push below that comments on the output of git push --dry-run --porcelain:

#! /usr/bin/env perl  use warnings; use strict;  die "Usage: $0 remote refspec\n" unless @ARGV == 2; my($origin,$refspec) = @ARGV; my @cmd = qw/ git push --dry-run --porcelain /; no warnings 'exec'; open my $fh, "-|" => @cmd, $origin, $refspec or die "$0: exec: $!"; # <flag> \t <from>:<to> \t <summary> (<reason>) my $update = qr/^ (.*)         \t    # flag (optional)                   (\S+):(\S+)  \t    # from:to                   (.+)               # summary                   (?:[ ] \((.+)\))?  # reason                 $/x;  while (<$fh>) {   next unless my($flag,$from,$to,$summary,$reason) = /$update/;   if ($flag eq "!") {     print "$0: $refspec rejected:\n", $_;   }   elsif ($flag eq "=") {     print "$0: $refspec up-to-date\n";   }   if ($summary =~ /^[0-9a-f]+\.\.[0-9a-f]+$/) {     system("git log --pretty=oneline $summary") == 0       or warn "$0: git log exited " . ($? >> 8);   }   elsif ($summary eq "[new branch]") {     print "$0: $refspec creates a new branch.\n";   } } 

Example usage:

$ git preview-push /tmp/bare master To /tmp/bare 270f8e6bec7af9b2509710eb1ae986a8e97068ec baz 4c3d1e89f5d6b0d493c9d0c7a06420d6b2eb5af7 bar