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From: James Pickens <jepicken@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [BUG] 'git log --quiet' doesn't suppress the output
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 23:44:59 -0700
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On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> It would probably be trivial to for "git log" to see that the quiet
> switch was given and silence the commit output. But I am having trouble
> envisioning exactly what that would be useful for (except for being a
> slower version of "cat /dev/null"). Care to elaborate?

I was writing a script, and looking for a way to figure out
whether there were any commits in origin/master that aren't in
master (i.e., whether I need to pull before I can push), and 'git
log --quiet origin/master..master' was the first thing I thought
of.

James