Hi all, I'm working on expanding the LazUpdater tool, so it can download and compile an entire working installation of FPC&Lazarus from scratch on Windows. (It downloads binutils, if necessary svn executables etc). My updates so far on: http://forge.lazarusforum.de/issues/118
Why? Because I'm fed up writing batch scripts on Windows, and I want to be able to just click on a program and get a running FPC/Lazarus environment starting from a clean virtual machine ;) I'm also extending it to use git (on Linux/OSX as well, after getting it to work on Windows) I'm using the git mirrors that Graeme Geldenhuys has set up, as specified in the wiki: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/git_mirrors 1. The program checks for the current git revision "number" (a hex string in fact) of the local copy. I can do this by issuing git log -1 --format="%H" and get something like a74e3740138d0727af73fbd2be10876c5ed8af0b (Or, I can do it the dirty way by looking at ORIG_HEAD in the .git directory) 2. Then it should check the remote revision number. 3. If those are different, it does a git pull to get the two in sync. How do I find out, using FreePascal and a git executable: 1. (Preferably - so I can match behaviour between the git and svn parts of the program) the remote git revision 2. If the local copy needs updating, i.e. the remote copy is newer. 3. (Bonus question) the date/time of latest update of local copy 4. (Bonus question 2) the date/time of latest update of remote copy As if it isn't clear enough already, I'm not an experienced git user (I use mercurial, and even TortoiseHg). However, having git support in LazUpdater does make downloading updates an awful lot quicker, so... Thanks, Reinier _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal