Command 'git fetch' to check if remote is ahead of local

~/Desktop/git_exp$ ls
f1  f2

~/Desktop/git_exp$ cd f1

~/Desktop/git_exp/f1$ git clone https://github.com/${username}/repo_for_testing.git

Cloning into 'repo_for_testing'...
Username for 'https://github.com': abc@xyz.com
Password for 'https://abc@xyz.com@github.com': 
remote: Enumerating objects: 5, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (5/5), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (4/4), done.
remote: Total 5 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0
Unpacking objects: 100% (5/5), 4.75 KiB | 1.58 MiB/s, done.

~/Desktop/git_exp/f1$ cd ../f2

~/Desktop/git_exp/f2$ git clone https://github.com/${username}/repo_for_testing.git
Cloning into 'repo_for_testing'...
Username for 'https://github.com': abc@xyz.com
Password for 'https://abc@xyz.com@github.com': 
remote: Enumerating objects: 5, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (5/5), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (4/4), done.
remote: Total 5 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0
Unpacking objects: 100% (5/5), 4.75 KiB | 2.38 MiB/s, done.


~/Desktop/git_exp/f1/repo_for_testing$ ls
LICENSE  README.md

~/Desktop/git_exp/f1/repo_for_testing$ echo " NEWFILE " > newFile.txt 

~/Desktop/git_exp/f1/repo_for_testing$ ls
LICENSE  newFile.txt  README.md

~/Desktop/git_exp/f1/repo_for_testing$ git add -A

~/Desktop/git_exp/f1/repo_for_testing$ git commit -m "cmt 1909"
[main 5b934da] cmt 1909
    1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
    create mode 100644 newFile.txt

~/Desktop/git_exp/f1/repo_for_testing$ git push

Username for 'https://github.com': abc@xyz.com
Password for 'https://abc@xyz.com@github.com': 
Enumerating objects: 4, done.
Counting objects: 100% (4/4), done.
Delta compression using up to 2 threads
Compressing objects: 100% (2/2), done.
Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 282 bytes | 282.00 KiB/s, done.
Total 3 (delta 1), reused 0 (delta 0)
remote: Resolving deltas: 100% (1/1), completed with 1 local object.
To https://github.com/${username}/repo_for_testing.git
    974a71b..5b934da  main -> main

~/Desktop/git_exp/f1/repo_for_testing$ git status -uno
On branch main
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/main'.

nothing to commit (use -u to show untracked files)

~/Desktop/git_exp/f1/repo_for_testing$ cd ../../f2/repo_for_testing/

~/Desktop/git_exp/f2/repo_for_testing$ ls
LICENSE  README.md

~/Desktop/git_exp/f2/repo_for_testing$ git status -uno
On branch main
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/main'.

nothing to commit (use -u to show untracked files)

~/Desktop/git_exp/f2/repo_for_testing$ git fetch --dry-run

Username for 'https://github.com': abc@xyz.com
Password for 'https://abc@xyz.com@github.com': 
remote: Enumerating objects: 4, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (4/4), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (1/1), done.
remote: Total 3 (delta 1), reused 3 (delta 1), pack-reused 0
Unpacking objects: 100% (3/3), 262 bytes | 262.00 KiB/s, done.
From https://github.com/${username}/repo_for_testing
    974a71b..5b934da  main       -> origin/main

~/Desktop/git_exp/f2/repo_for_testing$ ls
LICENSE  README.md

~/Desktop/git_exp/f2/repo_for_testing$ git log
commit 974a71b3df68140ebbc3b4775201b39c500aa589 (HEAD -> main, origin/main, origin/HEAD)
Author: ${username} <abc@xyz.com>
Date:   Wed Mar 17 01:32:16 2021 +0530

    Initial commit

~/Desktop/git_exp/f2/repo_for_testing$ git status -u
On branch main
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/main'.

nothing to commit, working tree clean

~/Desktop/git_exp/f2/repo_for_testing$ git pull
Username for 'https://github.com': abc@xyz.com
Password for 'https://abc@xyz.com@github.com': 
From https://github.com/${username}/repo_for_testing
    974a71b..5b934da  main       -> origin/main
Updating 974a71b..5b934da
Fast-forward
    newFile.txt | 1 +
    1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
    create mode 100644 newFile.txt

~/Desktop/git_exp/f2/repo_for_testing$ 
~/Desktop/git_exp/f2/repo_for_testing$ ls
LICENSE  newFile.txt  README.md

~/Desktop/git_exp/f2/repo_for_testing$ git log
commit 5b934dac6c399f06275feab5b4a91fa8063e092b (HEAD -> main, origin/main, origin/HEAD)
Author: Admin on Ubuntu <administrator@master.com>
Date:   Wed Mar 17 19:09:57 2021 +0530

    cmt 1909

commit 974a71b3df68140ebbc3b4775201b39c500aa589
Author: ${username} <abc@xyz.com>
Date:   Wed Mar 17 01:32:16 2021 +0530

    Initial commit

~/Desktop/git_exp/f2/repo_for_testing$ git fetch --dry-run

Username for 'https://github.com': abc@xyz.com
Password for 'https://abc@xyz.com@github.com': 

~/Desktop/git_exp/f2/repo_for_testing$ 

Silently exits if remote and local are same.

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