From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2013 11:37:23 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] contrib/subtree/t: Added tests for .gitsubtree support
Message-ID: <20130217113723.GA9882@elie.Belkin>
In-Reply-To: <CALeLG_nLz9Gfqcfk4EcWixRXbWC0x0GUVFDAKD20DGbkhRNWvQ@mail.gmail.com>

Paul Campbell wrote:

> Is there was a better way to verify that the push operation succeeds
> then grepping for a SHA1?

IIRC then when a push fails, it will exit with nonzero status (so the
usual &&-chaining would propagate the error).

Alternatively, one can fetch, ls-remote, or enter the target repo and
use history inspection tools to check that the result is as expected.

Hope that helps,
Jonathan