Re: [gentoo-user] Status of a GIT repository

[Helmut Jarausch]

On 12/20/2017 11:28:31 AM, Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov wrote:
> В письме от среда, 20 декабря 2017 г. 17:04:33 +07 пользователь Helmut
> Jarausch написал:
> > Hi,
> > I have no experience with GIT.
> >
> > I'd like to determine if a GIT repository in Gentoo is up-to-date.
> > Normally, a GIT folder has a '.git' subfolder. Using 'git status' in
> > such a GIT folder works fine.
> >
> > But the subfolders in /usr/portage/distfiles/git3-src don't contain
> a
> > '.git' subfolder.
> > A plain 'git status' in such a subfolder doesn't work - I get
> "fatal:
> > This operation must be run in a work tree".
> >
> > Is there a means to determine the status of a Gentoo-GIT-folder?
> >
> > Background: I'd like to check if anything has changed in the GIT
> > repository before I run an 'emerge -u' for that.
> >
> > Many thanks for a hint,
> > Helmut
>
> 1) there is no "Gentoo-GIT-folder". The things in $DISTDIR/git3-src
> is called
> "bare" repositories (i.e. it is that ".git" folder itself, without
> "unpacked"
> work tree, like you have in $PORTDIR)
> 2) Although, all the ways to check it would be too hard for your
> purpose.
> 3) but there is nice tool for your purpose: it's called
> `app-portage/smart-
> live-rebuild`.
> So, just emerge it, and then just run `emerge @smart-live-rebuild` (it
> provides special virtual set) periodically. It will perform all the
> checks for
> you.

Many thanks! This looks like it saves me a lot of work ( I was willing  
to write a Python script myself).
Helmut