git-update

Smarter git-pull. Inspired by, and mostly cribbed from, git-smart. But, you know, in shell. Because.

Installation

git-update can easily be installed with homebrew:

brew tap gfontenot/formulae
brew install git-update

Usage

git-update will perform the following actions when pulling:

• Stash local changes if they exist, popping the stash after the pull is
  complete
• Perform a fast-forward merge if the local branch hasn't moved on
• Perform a rebase -p on top of the remote branch if there are new local
  changes
• Display a paged git log of the pulled changes

The git log will use a custom log format if you've defined pretty.update in your gitconfig. If you haven't set a custom format, it will use the following:

%C(yellow)%h%Cblue%d%Creset %s - %C(white)%an %Cgreen(%cr)%Creset

This outputs a log formatted like so:

This prints the log like so:

<SHA> <Commit Message> - <Author> (<Relative Date>)