Re: git-fetch will leave a ref pointing to a tag

On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 11:23:15PM -0400, linux@horizon.com wrote:

And until git-merge-ff is available, what's the recommended way to
"advance master to tag <foo>, but only if that wouldn't lose anything?"

You can ask "do I have anything that foo doesn't?":

  test "`git-rev-list foo.. | wc -l`" -gt 0

-Peff