Re: [SCM] GNU Libtool branch, master, updated. v2.2.4-43-gcbe0c8e

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 09:15:10AM CEST:
> On 7 Sep 2008, at 06:34, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
>>
>> a couple of nits.  Note that I currently don't feel the need for
>> a commit script, as we have commit messages enabled through git
>> anyway.  But if it suits you...
>
> Peter asked for it to be fixed, since it grabs the commit message from
> the ChangeLog automatically.

Sure.

> I have a wrapper script that I currently use for automatically sending
> the 'FYI' or 'Okay to commit?' messages with the patch in question
> pasted into the body which I'd like to push too.

Cool.

>>> +    # HELP?!?  How to check for git push conflicts?
>>
>> Not sure why needed.  git push will not, unless you force it, push
>> something that is not a fast-forward of the remote tree.
>
> The original cvs commit script used to "cvs -nq update | grep '^C'"
> and diagnose an impending conflict and bail out before doing anything
> else.  I don't know if there is some way to dry-run the push and see
> whether it is doomed before actually trying it too, or even whether
> that makes sense for git?

Doesn't `git push --dry-run' provide this information (untested)?

Cheers,
Ralf