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Clone a git repo if it does not exist, or pull into it if it does exist
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gistfile1.sh
#!/bin/sh
REPOSRC=$1
LOCALREPO=$2
# We do it this way so that we can abstract if from just git later on
LOCALREPO_VC_DIR=$LOCALREPO/.git
if [ ! -d $LOCALREPO_VC_DIR ]
then
git clone $REPOSRC $LOCALREPO
else
cd $LOCALREPO
git pull $REPOSRC
fi
# End
@jotaelesalinas
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I made this script, a "little bit" more complex but which fulfilled my specific needs: https://gist.github.com/jotaelesalinas/cc88af3c9c4f8664216ea07bd08c250f

@sugatoray
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git clone "$REPOSRC" "$LOCALREPO" 2> /dev/null || (cd "$LOCALREPO" ; git pull)

Thank you. 👍

@ZeekDaGeek
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No need to cd into the directory to pull from it. git -C "$LOCALREPO" pull

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