Gitfetcher
Why I will not do git fetch or git pull ?
Because I have automated it.
Highly inspired from bash-git-prompt. If you are already using it (or equivalent of it), below custom script may be useful to you.
Problem Statement:
- Whenever I jump into the git directory, I do
git pull - And sometimes I forget to do it which might create conflicts
So created a script, which will do git fetch
- whenever I jump into git directory
- if we havent fetched for some time (say 5 min)
$ cat /path/to/gitfetcher.sh
#!/usr/bin/env bash
function fetch_in_background() {
{
eval "git fetch --quiet" &> /dev/null
}&
}
GIT_REPO="$PWD/.git"
if [[ -e $GIT_REPO ]]; then
FETCH_HEAD="$GIT_REPO/FETCH_HEAD"
if [[ -e "${FETCH_HEAD}" ]]; then
FETCH_TIMEOUT=5 #minutes after which check again
perl -e '((time - (stat("'"${FETCH_HEAD}"'"))[9]) / 60) > '"${FETCH_TIMEOUT}"' && exit(0) || exit(1)'
x="$?"
if [[ $x == 0 ]]; then
if [[ -n $(git remote show) ]]; then
(
fetch_in_background
disown -h
)
fi
fi
else
# echo ".git/FETCH_HEAD not found"
fetch_in_background
disown -h
fi
fi
And include the above script as prompter in your bash/zsh/fish configfile like
### Fetch in background
export PATH="$PATH:path/to/gitfetcher.sh" # configure gitfetcher.sh in the path
export PROMPT_COMMAND="gitfetcher.sh; $PROMPT_COMMAND"
### Fetch in background
You can find the source code of above script here and sample to see how I configured in my bashrc file