From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2011 00:59:27 GMT
Subject: Re: git log --quiet bug?
Message-ID: <20111109005927.GA25876@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vy5vqw47x.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 04:04:50PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Doesn't some variant of "branch -v" show the ahead/behind information for
> all branches?

Yeah, but I thought the question was how to figure this out
programatically in a script.

-Peff