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berimbolo
berimbolo

Reputation: 3829

Git comparison of remote branches

I am very new to git and was trying to use the following command to compare a remote version of a branch with the remote version of develop to show the files which have differences between the two:

 git diff origin/develop origin/feature/xxx --name-only

When ran, this command showed different results for 3 different development machines and I dont understand why.

Is this command not actually doing what I think it is doing?

I actually just tried this command whilst not even connected to the remote git server and it still shows me a result when I would have expected to have got some sort of error?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 63

Answers (1)

VonC
VonC

Reputation: 1323075

When ran, this command showed different results for 3 different development machines

It compares against the local version of those remote tracking branches: it depends on when the remote was fetched.

To get the same result (if done on all three machine at the same time), you would need a git fetch first.

Upvotes: 1

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