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Re: [BUG] 'git log --quiet' doesn't suppress the output

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JPJames Pickens <jepicken@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 7, 2009, 07:18 UTC
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On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 11:56 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
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> On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 11:44:59PM -0700, James Pickens wrote:
>
>> I was writing a script, and looking for a way to figure out
>> whether there were any commits in origin/master that aren't in
>> master (i.e., whether I need to pull before I can push), and 'git
>> log --quiet origin/master..master' was the first thing I thought
>> of.
>
> OK, that does make sense.
>
> In this case, though, you should be using the "git rev-list" plumbing
> instead of the "git log" porcelain for a script. And "git rev-list" does
> support "--quiet", but it doesn't quite do what you want. It silences
> the output, but the exit code does not depend on whether or not there
> were any commits in range.

Thanks for the tip; I'll just use rev-list and check if it gave any output.

James
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