Re: How can I tell if anything was fetched?

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date: Oct 11, 2012, 16:45 UTC
Message-ID: <m28vbdkley.fsf@igel.home>
In-Reply-To: <CAFRB3XkueafikCvwzBb+WOAG_1mEkVg1Yt6=teOuVwYd2zWVOw@mail.gmail.com>

Phil Lawrence <prlawrence@gmail.com> writes:

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> One approach might be to first generate a state-of-the-repo SHA1:
>     # http://stackoverflow.com/a/7350019/834039
>     # http://git-scm.com/book/ch9-2.html
>     {
>         git rev-list --objects --all
>         git rev-list --objects -g --no-walk --all
>         git rev-list --objects --no-walk \
>             $(git fsck --unreachable |
>               grep '^unreachable commit' |
>               cut -d' ' -f3)
>     } | sort | uniq | git hash-object -w --stdin

I think you'd only need to record the state of all refs (eg. the output of `git for-each-ref') to reliably detect any changes.

Andreas.

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