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. -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free.