Is there a “git pull --dry-run” option in Git?

Question

Is there such a thing as git pull --dry-run to see how stuff will be merged before it messes up my working tree?

Right now I am doing:

git f         


        

Answer 1

# fetch new commits from origin
$ git fetch

# check what are the differences and judge if safe to apply
$ git diff origin/master

# actually merge the fetched commits 
$ git pull