Question

I have a local git repo, and I have a remote git repo. What is a simple command to see what commit the remote repo is, and what commit the local repo is, so I can simple see if I’m up to date?

This is going to be automated in a program, so I don’t want lots of complicated stuff that I would have to parse. Preferably it would be cool to have both local & remote output the same text, with only the commit changing between the two. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Assuming that your remote repository is referred to by the remote origin, and you’re interested in the branch master, you can do:

git fetch origin

And then compare the output of:

git rev-parse master

… and:

git rev-parse origin/master

If the object names that are output by those two commands are the same, then your master and the master in origin were the same at the point when the git fetch origin was run.