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From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
To: Phil Lawrence <prlawrence@gmail.com>
Cc: git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: How can I tell if anything was fetched?
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 08:28:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5077B88E.5060303@viscovery.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFRB3XkueafikCvwzBb+WOAG_1mEkVg1Yt6=teOuVwYd2zWVOw@mail.gmail.com>

Am 10/11/2012 18:25, schrieb Phil Lawrence:
> What is the best way to know whether or not anything was received
> during the fetch?  I don't want to be stuck trying to parse the answer
> out of STDOUT and STDERR...

what="--all"	 # or "--remotes=the-remote"
presha1s=$(git rev-parse $what)
git fetch the-remote
if test -z "$(git rev-list -1 $what --not $presha1s)"
then
	echo nothing new
fi

Error checking is left as an exercise for the user ;)

-- Hannes

      parent reply	other threads:[~2012-10-12  6:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-11 16:25 How can I tell if anything was fetched? Phil Lawrence
2012-10-11 16:45 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-10-11 18:29   ` Enrico Weigelt
2012-10-12  7:47   ` Jeff King
2012-10-12  6:28 ` Johannes Sixt [this message]

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