Timur Tabi <timur@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Is there a way for me to tell if a particular file in my repository > has an update in the upstream repository? For example, the SHA of the > HEAD is different in the remote repository than it is of the HEAD in > the local repository. > > The reason I ask is that I have a set of Python scripts that I > distribute via git (other people in the company clone my repository). > I want my script, every time it's run, to check if an update is > available, and ask the user to do "git pull". You can't tell a particular file, but you could use something like `git ls-remote refs/heads/master` to see what the branch is at, and compare that to the last known commit. If its changed, then suggest the user do a fetch. I do this in repo, only I run `git fetch` once per day for the end-user. That way the objects are local, and I can use a local check to see if there are updates that need to be pulled into the executable working directory. -- Shawn. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html