From: James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:32:45 GMT
Subject: Re: how to check remote git repo for updates without pull/fetch
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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