From: Mason Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 23:47:58 GMT Subject: Re: Salvaging borked project history Message-ID: <54EFB0AE.6000600@free.fr> In-Reply-To: Junio C Hamano wrote: > Mason wrote: > >> I was planning to write 'git diff -q commit^ commit' >> to test for empty commits. > > s/-q/--quiet/ and all is well, no? Doh! I've no idea how I missed these... --exit-code Make the program exit with codes similar to diff(1). That is, it exits with 1 if there were differences and 0 means no differences. --quiet Disable all output of the program. Implies --exit-code. Thanks for walking me through it. Regards.