Retrieving an up to date remote branch commit hash without fetching

Question

Is there a command (something like git remote show maybe) that will get me an up to date remote branch commit hash without updating references by fetching?

Answer 1

You can use

git ls-remote <URL> <BRANCH>

and you will get following output:

λ git ls-remote https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit.git master
b5d2137d95d861ede02188dcbc7cdc459562d706        refs/heads/master

see help page: https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-ls-remote.html

Answer 2

Try

git log origin/<branch> -1