On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 11:56 PM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 11:44:59PM -0700, James Pickens wrote: > >> I was writing a script, and looking for a way to figure out >> whether there were any commits in origin/master that aren't in >> master (i.e., whether I need to pull before I can push), and 'git >> log --quiet origin/master..master' was the first thing I thought >> of. > > OK, that does make sense. > > In this case, though, you should be using the "git rev-list" plumbing > instead of the "git log" porcelain for a script. And "git rev-list" does > support "--quiet", but it doesn't quite do what you want. It silences > the output, but the exit code does not depend on whether or not there > were any commits in range. Thanks for the tip; I'll just use rev-list and check if it gave any output. James -- 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
