From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2011 00:04:50 GMT
Subject: Re: git log --quiet bug?
Message-ID: <7vy5vqw47x.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20111108232043.GA21957@sigill.intra.peff.net>

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?