Re: git log --quiet bug?

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Nov 8, 2011, 23:20 UTC
Message-ID: <20111108232043.GA21957@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <1320791465.67359.YahooMailNeo@web84006.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 02:31:05PM -0800, Prasad Deshpande wrote:

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> Thanks for your response. I was actually trying to write a script to
> determine if a workspace has commits which haven't been pushed to the
> repository. 
> For this I was using the following in a bash script:
> 
>   ..
>   git log origin..HEAD --quiet
>   if [ $? -ne 0 ]
>   then
>     echo
> 
>     echo "git log shows files committed but not pushed.. ABORTING"
>     echo
>     echo "************* `pwd` ***************"
>     git log origin..HEAD --color --graph --stat
>     exit 1
>   fi
> 
>   What is the recommended way to do this?

Try:

  test -z "$(git rev-list -1 origin..HEAD)" &&
  echo nothing that needs pushing

You can also use --count to get the exact number, but if you just care whether there is something or nothing, using "-1" lets git stop the graph traversal immediately.

-Peff