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Created April 1, 2012 19:34
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Clone a git repo if it does not exist, or pull into it if it does exist
#!/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 $REPOSRC
fi
# End
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No need to cd into the directory to pull from it. git -C "$LOCALREPO" pull

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