Re: [O] Bash script to update - only make when update there?

[Suvayu Ali]

On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 10:00:22AM +0100, Rainer M Krug wrote:
> 
> On 12/10/13, 21:50 , Samuel Wales wrote:
> > gitpullv () { #echo \=== maybe need to grab tags head=`git
> > rev-parse --verify HEAD` echo git pull --stat --log | cat echo 
> > newhead=`git rev-parse --verify HEAD` if [ "$newhead" != "$head" ] 
> > then git log --pretty=tformat:%s ORIG_HEAD.. | cat # git log
> > --pretty=tformat:%s --graph ORIG_HEAD.. echo echo '= you can now do
> > git diff ORIG_HEAD -- files pipe tee' return 0 else return 1 fi 
> > #git gc --auto git status }
> 
> Wow - and I expected a return code from git which I could simply
> compare evaluate if there has something updated...

A `git pull' without new updates, is still a successful pull.  It is a
failure only if the remote is unreachable for some reason, or the pull
is interrupted midway.

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Suvayu

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