首先使用git远程更新，使您的远程参考更新到最新。然后你可以做以下几件事中的一件，比如:

Git status -uno将告诉你你正在跟踪的分支是在前面、后面还是已经偏离。如果没有显示，则本地和远程是相同的。 Git show-branch *master会显示所有以master结尾的分支中的提交(例如master和origin/master)。

如果你在git远程更新(git remote -v update)中使用-v，你可以看到哪些分支被更新了，所以你真的不需要任何进一步的命令。

However, it looks like you want to do this in a script or program and end up with a true/false value. If so, there are ways to check the relationship between your current HEAD commit and the head of the branch you're tracking, although since there are four possible outcomes you can't reduce it to a yes/no answer. However, if you're prepared to do a pull --rebase then you can treat "local is behind" and "local has diverged" as "need to pull", and the other two ("local is ahead" and "same") as "don't need to pull".

你可以使用git rev-parse <ref>获得任何ref的提交id，所以你可以对master和origin/master这样做并比较它们。如果它们相等，那么分支是相同的。如果它们不相等，你想知道哪个在前面。使用git merge-base master origin/master会告诉你两个分支的共同祖先，如果它们没有分叉，这将是一个或另一个相同的。如果您得到三个不同的id，则分支已经分离。

To do this properly, eg in a script, you need to be able to refer to the current branch, and the remote branch it's tracking. The bash prompt-setting function in /etc/bash_completion.d has some useful code for getting branch names. However, you probably don't actually need to get the names. Git has some neat shorthands for referring to branches and commits (as documented in git rev-parse --help). In particular, you can use @ for the current branch (assuming you're not in a detached-head state) and @{u} for its upstream branch (eg origin/master). So git merge-base @ @{u} will return the (hash of the) commit at which the current branch and its upstream diverge and git rev-parse @ and git rev-parse @{u} will give you the hashes of the two tips. This can be summarized in the following script:

#!/bin/sh

UPSTREAM=${1:-'@{u}'}
LOCAL=$(git rev-parse @)
REMOTE=$(git rev-parse "$UPSTREAM")
BASE=$(git merge-base @ "$UPSTREAM")

if [ $LOCAL = $REMOTE ]; then
    echo "Up-to-date"
elif [ $LOCAL = $BASE ]; then
    echo "Need to pull"
elif [ $REMOTE = $BASE ]; then
    echo "Need to push"
else
    echo "Diverged"
fi

注意:旧版本的git不允许@单独使用，所以你可能不得不使用@{0}代替。

UPSTREAM=${1:-'@{u}'}允许你显式地传递一个上游分支，以防你想检查一个不同于当前分支配置的远程分支。这通常是remotename/branchname的形式。如果不指定参数，默认值为@{u}。

该脚本假设您已经首先进行了git获取或git远程更新，以使跟踪分支更新到最新。我没有把这个构建到脚本中，因为它更灵活，能够将抓取和比较作为单独的操作，例如，如果你想比较而不抓取，因为你最近已经获取了。

命令

git ls-remote origin -h refs/heads/master

将列出远程上的当前头—您可以将其与以前的值进行比较，或者查看您的本地回购中是否有SHA。

我只是想把这篇文章作为一个实际的帖子，因为它很容易在评论中错过。

这个问题的正确答案来自@Jake Berger，非常感谢你，每个人都需要这个，每个人都在评论中错过了这个。 因此，对于每个纠结于此的人来说，这里是正确的答案，只需使用该命令的输出来了解是否需要进行git拉取。如果输出为0，那么显然没有什么要更新的。

@stackoverflow，给这家伙一个铃铛。 谢谢@杰克·伯格

# will give you the total number of "different" commits between the two
# Jake Berger Feb 5 '13 at 19:23
git rev-list HEAD...origin/master --count

在阅读了许多答案和多个帖子，并花了半天时间尝试各种排列之后，这就是我想出的。

如果你在Windows上，你可以使用Git for Windows提供的Git Bash在Windows中运行这个脚本(安装或移植)。

这个脚本需要参数

- local path e.g. /d/source/project1
- Git URL e.g. https://username@bitbucket.org/username/project1.git
- password

if a password should not be entered on the command line in plain text,
then modify the script to check if GITPASS is empty; do not
replace and let Git prompt for a password

脚本将会

- Find the current branch
- Get the SHA1 of the remote on that branch
- Get the SHA1 of the local on that branch
- Compare them.

如果脚本打印了更改，那么您可以继续获取或拉取。脚本可能效率不高，但它为我完成了工作。

更新- 2015-10-30:stderr to dev null，防止将URL和密码打印到控制台。

#!/bin/bash

# Shell script to check if a Git pull is required.

LOCALPATH=$1
GITURL=$2
GITPASS=$3

cd $LOCALPATH
BRANCH="$(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD)"

echo
echo git url = $GITURL
echo branch = $BRANCH

# Bash replace - replace @ with :password@ in the GIT URL
GITURL2="${GITURL/@/:$GITPASS@}"
FOO="$(git ls-remote $GITURL2 -h $BRANCH 2> /dev/null)"
if [ "$?" != "0" ]; then
  echo cannot get remote status
  exit 2
fi
FOO_ARRAY=($FOO)
BAR=${FOO_ARRAY[0]}
echo [$BAR]

LOCALBAR="$(git rev-parse HEAD)"
echo [$LOCALBAR]
echo

if [ "$BAR" == "$LOCALBAR" ]; then
  #read -t10 -n1 -r -p 'Press any key in the next ten seconds...' key
  echo No changes
  exit 0
else
  #read -t10 -n1 -r -p 'Press any key in the next ten seconds...' key
  #echo pressed $key
  echo There are changes between local and remote repositories.
  exit 1
fi

对于那些在这个问题上寻找答案的windows用户，我已经将部分答案修改为powershell脚本。根据需要进行调整，保存到.ps1文件，并根据需要或计划运行。

cd C:\<path to repo>
git remote update                           #update remote
$msg = git remote show origin               #capture status
$update = $msg -like '*local out of date*'
if($update.length -gt 0){                   #if local needs update
    Write-Host ('needs update')
    git pull
    git reset --hard origin/master
    Write-Host ('local updated')
} else {
    Write-Host ('no update needed')
}

已有许多很有特色、很丰富、很巧妙的答案。为了提供一些对比，我可以使用非常简单的线条。

# Check return value to see if there are incoming updates.
if ! git diff --quiet remotes/origin/HEAD; then
 # pull or whatever you want to do
fi