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

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

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。

运行git fetch (remote)来更新你的远程引用，它会告诉你什么是新的。然后，当您签出本地分支时，它将显示它是否落后于上游。

下面是一个Bash一行代码，比较了当前分支的HEAD提交哈希和它的远程上游分支，不需要大量的git获取或git拉取——需要干运行操作:

[ $(git rev-parse HEAD) = $(git ls-remote $(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref @{u} | \
sed 's/\// /g') | cut -f1) ] && echo up to date || echo not up to date

以下是这条有点密集的线是如何被分解的:

Commands are grouped and nested using $(x) Bash command-substitution syntax. git rev-parse --abbrev-ref @{u} returns an abbreviated upstream ref (e.g. origin/master), which is then converted into space-separated fields by the piped sed command, e.g. origin master. This string is fed into git ls-remote which returns the head commit of the remote branch. This command will communicate with the remote repository. The piped cut command extracts just the first field (the commit hash), removing the tab-separated reference string. git rev-parse HEAD returns the local commit hash. The Bash syntax [ a = b ] && x || y completes the one-liner: this is a Bash string-comparison = within a test construct [ test ], followed by and-list and or-list constructs && true || false.

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$update = $msg -like '*local out of date*'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')
}