Re: git log --quiet bug?

On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 04:04:50PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

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