From: Florian Mickler <florian@mickler.org>
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:46:57 GMT
Subject: Re: Checking for fast-forward
Message-ID: <20090707124657.1b0fe4df@schatten>
In-Reply-To: <4A530594.20100@drmicha.warpmail.net>

On Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:21:40 +0200
Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> wrote:

> If $(git rev-list bar..remotes/origin/foo) is empty then the branch
> foo in the remote repo can be fast-forwarded to bar.
> 
> Chhers,
> Michael

in that case you could also do 
'git cherry bar origin/foo'

that shows you all commits that are in origin/foo but not in bar. 

Sincerely,
Florian