On Monday 23 January 2012 17:09:38 Junio C Hamano wrote: > 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 [repository] > lacks "x" for whatever reason, Y..HEAD is not fully connected. Ah, Ok. Thanks! Then YES, I misunderstood ‘--quiet’. The man page caused me to think it was functionally equivalent to ‘git rev-list STUFF >/dev/null’. cheers! -blf- -- Brian Foster Principal MTS, Software | La Ciotat, France Maxim Integrated Products | Web: http://www.maxim-ic.com/ -- 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