Re: git: how to figure out with a script what the last commit on remote repo is without fetching it

[lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de>]

Joel Rees <joel.rees@gmail.com> writes:

> On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 7:39 PM, lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de> wrote:
>> [...]
>> I have read so much documentation that I'm able to use git for what I'm
>> using it.  If you are aware of some documentation that would be helpful
>> for the problem at hand, please feel free to point it out.
>
> How much have you read of this:
>
>     http://git-scm.com/documentation ?
>
> I'm not trying to be rude, but I wonder whether you'd do us a favor
> and re-read the first two chapters. There are two specific subsections
> that I'd suggest you slow down to read carefully, but I don't want to
> encourage you to read just those two. You need the context.

So I've gone through these chapters, and I still don't see how to solve
the problem at hand in a reasonable way.  The only thing so far that
/might/ work is still using 'git status'.


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