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RAHUL
RAHUL

Reputation: 1

How to automate git pull on the local system whenever there is a change in the remote GitHub repository?

There is a remote GitHub repository where everyone makes changes to files, raises PR and updates it regularly. I have the same repository in my local. Right now am doing git pull manually whenever I see changes in the remote repository. Instead of manually doing it every time, I just want whatever the changes that are happening in the remote repository to automatically replicate in my local via a python API if possible.

I wanted to know if it is possible for a python script to automatically detect changes whenever there is a change/development in the corresponding remote GitHub repository and update those changes at a certain time in the local folder. So that I don't have to keep doing a manual git pull operation whenever I see changes in the remote GitHub repository.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 745

Answers (1)

Hassan
Hassan

Reputation: 46

Automating git pull is a bad idea because it would fail whenever there is a conflict.

Some people use cron jobs for running git fetch implicitly in the background, but it introduces other complications that you might not want to deal with. From the docs:

A general note on safety: supplying this option without an expected value, i.e. as --force-with-lease or --force-with-lease=<refname> interacts very badly with anything that implicitly runs git fetch on the remote to be pushed to in the background, e.g. git fetch origin on your repository in a cronjob.

Upvotes: 1

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