From: Lee Griffiths <poddster@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:36:30 GMT
Subject: Re: Checking for fast-forward
Message-ID: <ca4f67be0907081036j38724491n6c4c0e9aa995ee51@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4A530594.20100@drmicha.warpmail.net>

Thanks for the answers :)

After seeing that git push skips the packing (and potentially other
things) when doing a dry run, and given that:
	git push --dry-run
takes 1.5s on average and that:
	git fetch
	git rev-list master..remotes/origin/master
OR
	git ls-remote origin refs/remotes/origin/master

take 4s on average, I think I'll stick with the dry-run & checking for
exception method.

Thanks though :)

2009/7/7 Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>:
> If $(git rev-list bar..remotes/origin/foo) is empty then the branch foo
> in the remote repo can be fast-forwarded to bar.