Before I pull from a remote repository I would like to size up the changes. Not completely sure what information is available. A list of commits (with descriptions) and a list of files changed is a good place to start.
For anybody familiar with perforce, I want the exact equivant to "p4 sync -n".
I thought this would be easy. I first checked "git help pull". I then checked google. Run out of places to check.
There is no direct equivalence for p4 sync -n in Git.
git fetch --prefetch), introduced with Git 2.32, but that might not include size information.A list of commits (with descriptions) and a list of files changed is a good place to start.
That would still involve a git fetch first.
Then, as commented:
git diff --name-only @ @{u}
git log --pretty=oneline @{u}..HEAD
As illustrated in "How to compare a local Git branch with its remote branch", @{u} from git revisions
The suffix
@{upstream}to a branchname (short form<branchname>@{u}) refers to the branch that the branch specified by branchname is set to build on top of (configured withbranch.<name>.remoteandbranch.<name>.merge).