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Re: Checking for fast-forward

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Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Date
Jul 7, 2009, 11:01 UTC
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Florian Mickler venit, vidit, dixit 07.07.2009 12:46:
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> 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.

Well, that goes through all commits "bar..remotes/origin/foo" and computes patch-ids. It is porcelain. Don't use it for scripting.

Michael
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