Subject: Re: Salvaging borked project history

From: Mason <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 00:47:58 +0100

Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Mason wrote:
> 
>> I was planning to write 'git diff -q commit^ commit'
>> to test for empty commits.
> 
> s/-q/--quiet/ and all is well, no?

Doh! I've no idea how I missed these...

--exit-code
  Make the program exit with codes similar to diff(1). That is, it
  exits with 1 if there were differences and 0 means no differences.

--quiet
  Disable all output of the program. Implies --exit-code.

Thanks for walking me through it.

Regards.