git to retrieve the number of commits from a purely remote repo?

graysky · 2021-02-14 14:07:02

Is it possible to use git to retrieve the number of commits from a purely remote repo?

For example, I can grab the last commit hash to a purely remote repo this way:

% git ls-remote -h https://github.com/torvalds/linux      
358feceebbf68f33c44c6650d14455389e65282d	refs/heads/master

I want to see the number of commits in a like fashion. For example:

% git COMMAND ... https://github.com/torvalds/linux
984,205

Last edited by graysky (2021-02-14 14:09:21)

eschwartz · 2021-02-15 03:40:00

Not really, though if you have ssh interactive shell access on the remote you could run git describe remotely.

What's the purpose of this?

graysky · 2021-02-15 12:05:00

I want to have a script pull the latest commit hash (which I can via piping the output above into awk) and also the total number of commits remotely. I too do not think it is possible.

eschwartz · 2021-02-16 02:04:09

That's not the purpose of this, that's the mechanism you intend to use in the course of achieving your purpose.

This xyproblem thing is always pretty annoying.

graysky · 2021-10-16 12:19:47

I ended up hacking a grep/head/sed solution together but it's ugly.

URL='https://github.com/graysky2/xbmc'
BRANCH=gs-gbm_nexus

newcommit=$(git ls-remote -h "$URL" "$BRANCH" | awk '{print $1}')
newcount=$(curl -v --stderr - "$URL"/tree/"$BRANCH" | grep -B 1 "Commits on $BRANCH" | head -n1 | sed -e s'/^.*<strong>//' -e 's/<\/strong>//' -e 's/,//')

echo $newcommit
echo $newcount

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#1 2021-02-14 14:07:02

git to retrieve the number of commits from a purely remote repo?

#2 2021-02-15 03:40:00

Re: git to retrieve the number of commits from a purely remote repo?

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