On Sun, 5 Aug 2007, Alex Riesen wrote:

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> Steffen Prohaska, Sun, Aug 05, 2007 13:37:34 +0200:
>> How can I check what a 'git push' would do, without
>> actually doing it?
>>
>> Is there something like 'git push --dry-run', similar
>> to 'rsync --dry-run'?
>
> No. It is often safe to just do git-push, unless you have naive
> developers doing pull every time some ref in your shared repo changes
> *and* expecting the result to compile (typical for CVS way of work).
> git-push will not overwrite anything, it always only forwards history.

Not strictly true.  You _can_ push out non fastforward changes, unless you 
have receive.denyNonFastforwards in the repote repo - so you may well be 
able to push out something that is completely unrelated to the last commit 
the ref pointed to.

-- 
Julian

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