From: Florian Mickler <florian@mickler.org>
To: Lee Griffiths <poddster@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Checking for fast-forward
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 23:26:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090706232614.32602ccc@schatten> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ca4f67be0907060936v7bf7c44y4395717fff854fd4@mail.gmail.com>
this is more of a git question, than smth special to msysgit.
(git ml cc'd)
On Mon, 6 Jul 2009 17:36:54 +0100
Lee Griffiths <poddster@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have a script that checks for fast-forwarding by doing a git push
> --dry-run. This strikes me as the wrong way to do it as it does _all_
> of the stuff a git push would normally do i.e., packing and so on, and
> I'm only really after the fast-forward check. Seeing as I already do a
> git push at the end of the script (actualy two, as I do a --tags one
> as well[1]), it seems like a big waste of time. Is there anyother way
> to check and see if the git push would work? (I want the script to
> avoid doing a git pull if possible).
>
>
> Thanks,
> Lee
>
>
>
> [1] I originally assumed --tags would push the data AND the tags, but
> that doesn't seem to be the case.... Am I wrong in this?
>
next parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-06 21:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <ca4f67be0907060936v7bf7c44y4395717fff854fd4@mail.gmail.com>
2009-07-06 21:26 ` Florian Mickler [this message]
2009-07-07 8:21 ` Checking for fast-forward Michael J Gruber
2009-07-07 10:46 ` Florian Mickler
2009-07-07 11:01 ` Michael J Gruber
2009-07-08 17:36 ` Lee Griffiths
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