Brian Foster <brian.foster@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I am probably misunderstanding ‘--quiet’, which the > man page cryptically describes as “... allow the > caller to test the exit status to see if a range > of objects is fully connected (or not).” What is > meant here by “fully connected” ? If the real history looks like this: ---Y---x---HEAD i.e. the commit at HEAD says "parent x" in it, and your lacks "x" for whatever reason, Y..HEAD is not fully connected. -- 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