Re: How to check repository/working tree status from a script

From: Marc Haber <mh+git@zugschlus.de>
Date: May 21, 2009, 13:24 UTC
Message-ID: <20090521132457.GB5625@torres.zugschlus.de>
In-Reply-To: <20090519143537.GA23505@torres.zugschlus.de>

Hi,

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 04:35:37PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:

> 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.

(a) has been solved, thanks for helping.

I am now looking for a solution for (b). I tried

git log -n1 --pretty=oneline master..origin/master

but that seems to always give empty output even if a later issued git pull will actually pull in changes.

Greetings Marc

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