Konstantin Khomoutov <flatworm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Wed, 27 Nov 2013 15:17:27 +0000
> Pete Forman <petef4+usenet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I am looking for a way of detecting up front whether a git pull or git
>> merge would fail. The sort of script I want to perform is to update a
>> server.
>>
>> git fetch
>> git okay
>> stop server
>> backup data
>> git merge
>> start server
>>
>> Here git okay is a place holder for the command I am asking for.
>>
>> If a file has been changed outside of a commit then git pull fails
>> with the following error.
>>
>> error: Your local changes to '...' would be overwritten by merge.
>> Aborting. Please, commit your changes or stash them before you can
>> merge.
>
> What's wrong with "git okay" being
>
> if git merge whatever 2>/dev/null; then
> ... OK path
> else
> ... "merge failed" path
> fi
The idea seems to be to stop the server before actually doing the merge
(and avoid doing so if the merge is bound to fail).
I don't know a simple way to do the pre-merge check without actually
doing the merge (other than patching git merge to add a --dry-run
option), but you can do a pessimistic check by using the
require_work_tree_exists shell function defined in git-sh-setup (copied
below, but you can call it from a shell script after doing
. "$(git --exec-path)/git-sh-setup"):
require_clean_work_tree () {
git rev-parse --verify HEAD >/dev/null || exit 1
git update-index -q --ignore-submodules --refresh
err=0
if ! git diff-files --quiet --ignore-submodules
then
echo >&2 "Cannot $1: You have unstaged changes."
err=1
fi
if ! git diff-index --cached --quiet --ignore-submodules HEAD --
then
if [ $err = 0 ]
then
echo >&2 "Cannot $1: Your index contains uncommitted changes."
else
echo >&2 "Additionally, your index contains uncommitted changes."
fi
err=1
fi
if [ $err = 1 ]
then
test -n "$2" && echo >&2 "$2"
exit 1
fi
}
Additionally, you may want to check that the merge is a fast-forward
(hence can't result in merge conflict), e.g. by checking that the
current commit is the merge base between itself and the commit to merge
(git merge-base HEAD $commit).
--
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/
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