How to see remote changes to branches in Git?

There must be something I've overlooked when I learned Git. After all I'm fairly new to it.

My workmate says he's pushed back some changes he made to my commit in our remote repo开发者_Go百科sitory. However the git log has no record of this new push.

How can I see what he pushed and thus know what branch to pull?

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you have to git fetch his changes first. you can then show them using git log origin/branch (branch being very likely master)

git fetch retrieves all the remote changes, copies them to your local clone and updates the remote-tracking branches (those origin/… stuff, see git branch -a). to get his changes into your local branch, use either git pull or git merge

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When you have the origin fetched like mentioned, you can always

git status

which will mention your current branch and whether you are ahead/behind the tracking branch (man git branch)

git log --left-right --graph --cherry-pick --oneline HEAD...origin/master

is my very very preferred alias for things. I have even created an alias for this (lr from left-right) and extended bash_completion for the purpose.

Consider adding a remote for the origin (if you clone from the origin, you'll have one automatically). You can then 'git remote update' to get all latest refs from the remote