因为尼尔的回答对我帮助很大，这里是一个没有依赖关系的Python翻译:

import os
import logging
import subprocess

def check_for_updates(directory:str) -> None:
    """Check git repo state in respect to remote"""
    git_cmd = lambda cmd: subprocess.run(
        ["git"] + cmd,
        cwd=directory,
        stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
        check=True,
        universal_newlines=True).stdout.rstrip("\n")

    origin = git_cmd(["config", "--get", "remote.origin.url"])
    logging.debug("Git repo origin: %r", origin)
    for line in git_cmd(["fetch"]):
        logging.debug(line)
    local_sha = git_cmd(["rev-parse", "@"])
    remote_sha = git_cmd(["rev-parse", "@{u}"])
    base_sha = git_cmd(["merge-base", "@", "@{u}"])
    if local_sha == remote_sha:
        logging.info("Repo is up to date")
    elif local_sha == base_sha:
        logging.info("You need to pull")
    elif remote_sha == base_sha:
        logging.info("You need to push")
    else:
        logging.info("Diverged")

check_for_updates(os.path.dirname(__file__))

hth

使用简单的regexp:

str=$(git status) 
if [[ $str =~ .*Your\ branch\ is\ behind.*by.*commits,\ and\ can\ be\ fast-forwarded ]]; then
    echo `date "+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"` "Needs pull"
else
    echo "Code is up to date"
fi

如果你想把task添加为crontab:

#!/bin/bash
dir="/path/to/root"
lock=/tmp/update.lock
msglog="/var/log/update.log"

log()
{
        echo "$(date) ${1:-missing}" >> $msglog
}

if [ -f $lock ]; then
        log "Already run, exiting..."
else
        > $lock
        git -C ~/$dir remote update &> /dev/null
        checkgit=`git -C ~/$dir status`
        if [[ ! "$checkgit" =~ "Your branch is up-to-date" ]]; then
                log "-------------- Update ---------------"
                git -C ~/$dir pull &>> $msglog
                log "-------------------------------------"
        fi
        rm $lock

fi
exit 0

如果你有一个上游分支

git fetch <remote>
git status

如果你没有上游分支

比较这两个分支:

git fetch <remote>
git log <local_branch_name>..<remote_branch_name> --oneline

例如:

git fetch origin

# See if there are any incoming changes
git log HEAD..origin/master --oneline

(我假设原点/主人是你的远程跟踪分支)

如果上面的输出中列出了任何提交，那么您就有了传入的更改——您需要合并。如果git日志中没有列出提交，那么就没有东西可以合并。

注意，即使你在一个没有跟踪远程的特性分支上，这也可以工作，因为if显式地引用了origin/master，而不是隐式地使用Git记住的上游分支。

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

下面的脚本运行良好。

changed=0
git remote update && git status -uno | grep -q 'Your branch is behind' && changed=1
if [ $changed = 1 ]; then
    git pull
    echo "Updated successfully";
else
    echo "Up-to-date"
fi