Question

i would like to know which files would be updated (and hopefully the changes that would occur) if i’d do a ‘git pull’…

is

git stash 
git fetch
git diff origin/master
git stash apply 

the answer ?

Answer 1

See here. To quote:

you can do a ‘git fetch origin’, then
a ‘git log master..origin/master’, and
it’ll tell you what changes will be
merged if you do a ‘git merge
origin/master’.