"Mark Ryden" <markryde@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Hello, > I am working against a git repository which is updated at non regular > intervals; sometimes it takes a day and sometimes a week or two. > > I have a script in crontab which runs daily which tries "git pull" of > this repository. > > I want write a bash script which echoes yhe result of this git pull > to a log file in such > a way that in case that any files were pulled, a short message > saying "files were pulled at date ddmmyyyy" will be added to a log file. > In case that there there were no changes, a message saying > "Already up-to-date (ddmmyyyy) will be added to a log file. > > How can it be done ? > can I test somehow the return value of git pull in a bash script for > these two different > cases? You know that a no-op pull does not update HEAD and a successful pull does. So your script would do something like: #!/bin/sh original_head=$(git rev-parse HEAD) || exit git pull origin || exit updated_head=$(git rev-parse HEAD) || exit if test "$updated_head" = "$original_head" then echo Upstream is idling else echo These new commits were brought in git shortlog $original_head..$updated_head fi -- 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