Stefan Monnier [2019-03-22 09:50:51-04] wrote:

> But we could accept people sending an email with a URL to a branch in
> their own repository.  I'm not sure how conveniently Git handles that
> (ideally, I'd like to be able to do something like "git diff URL"), but
> we could in any case add a VC command to do that.

"git pull" is actually "git fetch" + "git merge" so to check a remote
repository one would do "git fetch https://...". Then useful comands
would be

git diff master...FETCH_HEAD  # from branches' common base to FETCH_HEAD
git diff master FETCH_HEAD    # between the brances
git log -p master..FETCH_HEAD # log+patches from the common base to FETCH_HEAD

If FETCH_HEAD from a remote url is not merged or turned into a named
branch the new git objects will eventually be garbage collected.

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