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Re: How to check repository/working tree status from a script

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Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
Date
May 19, 2009, 15:34 UTC
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On Tue, 19 May 2009, Marc Haber wrote:
Hi Marc.
> I would like to check in a script whether there (a) are uncommitted
> changes (as in "working tree differs from local repository")

# check working tree is not different from the index git diff --quiet # check that the index is not different from the head git diff --quiet --cached

> and/or whether there (b) are unpulled changes in the "remote origin"
> repository.
Dunno, sorry.
Tony.
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