Am 10/11/2012 18:25, schrieb Phil Lawrence: > What is the best way to know whether or not anything was received > during the fetch? I don't want to be stuck trying to parse the answer > out of STDOUT and STDERR... what="--all" # or "--remotes=the-remote" presha1s=$(git rev-parse $what) git fetch the-remote if test -z "$(git rev-list -1 $what --not $presha1s)" then echo nothing new fi Error checking is left as an exercise for the user ;) -- Hannes -- 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