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Subject: Re: git log --quiet bug?
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On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 04:04:50PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> > Try:
> >
> >   test -z "$(git rev-list -1 origin..HEAD)" &&
> >   echo nothing that needs pushing
> >
> > You can also use --count to get the exact number, but if you just care
> > whether there is something or nothing, using "-1" lets git stop the
> > graph traversal immediately.
> 
> Doesn't some variant of "branch -v" show the ahead/behind information for
> all branches?

Yeah, but I thought the question was how to figure this out
programatically in a script.

-Peff