[Vm-dev] build emergency with recent changes to updateSCCSVersions

[Holger Freyther]

> On 21 Jun 2016, at 23:37, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
> 

Hi Eliot,


> How do I know?  This "fetch and then diff" method is IMO broken.  I simply want to know whether there are incoming commits /before/ I do a fetch.

"fetch" will just update your remote (origin by default). Do you know "git ls-remote origin", is that closer to what you want?

holger