From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jonathan Nieder Subject: Re: finding if a commit is needed Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:06:48 -0500 Message-ID: <20100729000647.GB29156@dert.cs.uchicago.edu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Geoff Russell X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jul 29 02:07:06 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OeGeP-0003b9-WF for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Jul 2010 02:07:06 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751170Ab0G2AGt (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:06:49 -0400 Received: from camembert.cs.uchicago.edu ([128.135.164.153]:48916 "EHLO smtp.cs.uchicago.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750889Ab0G2AGt (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:06:49 -0400 Received: from dert.cs.uchicago.edu (dert.cs.uchicago.edu [128.135.11.157]) by smtp.cs.uchicago.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CCAFA1FC; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:06:48 -0500 (CDT) Received: by dert.cs.uchicago.edu (Postfix, from userid 10442) id 390B76914; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:06:48 -0500 (CDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Geoff Russell wrote: > Is there something which can test whether a commit is needed? > > I define "needed" as meaning when git commit -a would make a non-identical > commit. Maybe "git diff --exit-code HEAD"? Regards, Jonathan