Hi, I am kind of new to git, and my thinking is still somewhat svn-centric. Please keep this in mind just in case that I have misunderstood some of git's concepts. I would like to check in a script whether there (a) are uncommitted changes (as in "working tree differs from local repository") and/or whether there (b) are unpulled changes in the "remote origin" repository. I have to admit that I didn't bother about (b) yet, but for (a) there seems no possibility other than to parse git status' output since it seems to always return exit code 1: $ GIT_PAGER=cat git status; echo $? # On branch master nothing to commit (working directory clean) 1 $ touch keks $ GIT_PAGER=cat git status; echo $? # On branch master # Untracked files: # (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed) # # bla nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track) 1 $ Am I missing something here? Is there documentation about the exit codes of the different git subcommands or probably a complete solution for my two endeavours? Any hints will be appreciated. Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 72739834 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 3221 2323190 -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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