Re: how to check remote git repo for updates without pull/fetch

From: James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com>
Date: Dec 20, 2008, 17:32 UTC
Message-ID: <m3skoi21m3.fsf@lugabout.jhcloos.org>
In-Reply-To: <494BC89F.9070107@gmail.com>

Here is the script I use:

#!/bin/bash # # does this git repo need a pull? # l=$(git log|head -1|awk '{print $NF}') r=$(git ls-remote origin heads/master|awk '{print $1}') test "${r}" != "${l}"

-JimC

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