>>>>> "Junio" == Junio C Hamano <junkio@xxxxxxx> writes: >> ## (code here to cd to the right dir omitted) >> git-fetch >> if git-status | grep -v 'nothing to commit' Junio> git-status exits non-zero for "nothing to commit" case, so do Junio> not grep its output, but check the status of the command, to see Junio> if your tree is in a good shape to do a pull. No, this is deliberate. I want to see nothing if we're up to date, but if not, I want to see *everything else* that git-status said. This nice "grep -v" does precisely the right thing. Junio> Do we not leave ORIG_HEAD when we are already up-to-date? If so Junio> that would be confusing... No, we do leave ORIG_HEAD no matter Junio> what, so you do not have to have this inner if to grep Junio> up-to-date (on the other hand, you might want to do intelligent Junio> things when git-pull fails). So just drop the if and say Junio> something like: Junio> else Junio> PAGER= ; export PAGER Junio> git pull . origin && Junio> git log --pretty ORIG_HEAD..HEAD | Junio> git shortlog Junio> fi However, this is good to know. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <merlyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training! - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html