How to get the number of new commits added to the local repository by a git pull?-CodePudding

When I run git pull, I'd like to know how many commits the pull added to my local repository, preferably on the current branch only. Is there a way to get this information ?

The manual for git-pull doesn't seem to indicate anything about this, and I haven't found any thread online specifically dealing with this.

CodePudding user response：

Git pull doesn't give you that information.

But what you can do is:

git fetch git status

On branch master
Your branch is behind 'origin/master' by 11 commits, and can be fast-forwarded.
  (use "git pull" to update your local branch)

And this will give you information about how many commits will be pulled.

CodePudding user response：

Continuing on @Grzegorz' answer, but with a complete substitute for git pull and more appropriate answer to my question (requesting only the number of new commits), here is the command I came up with:

git fetch ; git status -bsu no ; git merge

Which will output something like this:

## master...origin/master [behind 6]
Updating 050a8c7..b8a6c2e
Fast-forward
 2.4/debian-10/Dockerfile | 2  -
 2.5/debian-10/Dockerfile | 2  -
 2.6/debian-10/Dockerfile | 2  -
 README.md                | 6    ---
 4 files changed, 6 insertions( ), 6 deletions(-)

giving you the number of new commits in the text between brackets [behind 6] meaning 6 new commits have been pulled to the current branch from the remote.

PS: Of course, if you git pull --rebase by default, you would have to change git merge with git rebase.