[Scilab-Dev] Gitview not updated?

[François Vogel]

Pierre MARECHAL said on 02/11/2008 23:04:
> François Vogel a écrit :
>> Pierre MARECHAL said on 30/10/2008 14:46:
>>>> Also, since I'm here, another question: is there any way in gitview 
>>>> to show only the commits pertaining to a given branch? Currently 
>>>> everything is mixed up and it's not easy to find what applies to 
>>>> what branch.
>>> Yes, links are in the "heads" section :
>>> http://gitweb.scilab.org/?p=scilab;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/5.0
>>
>> OK, found, thanks.
>>
>> Btw, did you perhaps miss the other question I had yesterday:
>>
>> How can I see the commits in a remote branch, say origin/master 
>> without fetching or pulling them first?
>>
>> Francois
> Hi François,
> 
> I don't think it's possible because it's not the philosophy of a 
> distributed revision control : Every Git working directory is a 
> full-fledged repository with complete history and full revision tracking 
> capabilities. So why ask the remote repository ?
> "git fecth" can't break your local build : This command downloads 
> objects and refs from the origin repository but not impact on your 
> working directory.

Understood. Then, one I have fetched, how can I see the diff between 
the newly fetched commits and my local sandbox? I could not find this 
in the git help, I must have looked at the wrong place.

Francois