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

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。

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

我认为最好的方法是:

git diff remotes/origin/HEAD

假设您已经注册了this refspec。如果您已经克隆了存储库，则应该这样做，否则(例如，如果回购是在本地从头创建的，并推到远程)，则需要显式地添加refspec。

如果你运行这个脚本，它将测试当前分支是否需要git拉:

#!/bin/bash

git fetch -v --dry-run 2>&1 |
    grep -qE "\[up\s+to\s+date\]\s+$(
        git branch 2>/dev/null |
           sed -n '/^\*/s/^\* //p' |
                sed -r 's:(\+|\*|\$):\\\1:g'
    )\s+" || {
        echo >&2 "Current branch need a 'git pull' before commit"
        exit 1
}

将它作为Git钩子预提交来避免非常方便

Merge branch 'foobar' of url:/path/to/git/foobar into foobar

当你承诺之前拉。

要将此代码用作钩子，只需复制/粘贴脚本即可

.git/hooks/pre-commit

and

chmod +x .git/hooks/pre-commit

所有这些复杂的建议，而解决方案却如此简单:

#!/bin/bash

BRANCH="<your branch name>"
LAST_UPDATE=`git show --no-notes --format=format:"%H" $BRANCH | head -n 1`
LAST_COMMIT=`git show --no-notes --format=format:"%H" origin/$BRANCH | head -n 1`

git remote update
if [ $LAST_COMMIT != $LAST_UPDATE ]; then
        echo "Updating your branch $BRANCH"
        git pull --no-edit
else
        echo "No updates available"
fi