如何不做拉就看最后的远程提交评论

Question

I am trying to find a way to see the last remote commit comments without doing a pull.

I know I can do a

git log -1

to see the local commit, but what can I do for the remote commit?

Answer 1

To answer the question as asked: there's no stock way at all to show remote commits, you need the actual objects present to inspect them. To get the remote to run any pre-prepared code you want, best I can do is write a pre-receive exit that hunts for special branch names and runs prepared commands before rejecting the push to any of them. It's a rather disgusting kludge even as kludges go.

But as the commenters point out, fetched commits are compressed extremely well, there'd have to be some very special reason not to do it the easy way.

Answer 2

You can use

git fetch origin

to fetch commits from the remote origin . Now you can see the commit messages with

git log origin/master

(Replace origin/master with whichever branch you wish to view.)