the step backwards for our two forward

[feisty_meow.git] / scripts / rev_control / version_control.sh

diff --git a/scripts/rev_control/version_control.sh b/scripts/rev_control/version_control.sh
index 0c8cec27eb097936b340c611d8c7bda5fbf27b7a..0c7ac401b6305cc595e4e7eedea2728c0f55b9d3 100644 (file)
--- a/scripts/rev_control/version_control.sh
+++ b/scripts/rev_control/version_control.sh
@@ -243,7 +243,10 @@ function checkin_list()
   restore_terminal_title
 }
 
-# does a careful git update on all the folders in the specified list.
+# does a careful update on all the folders in the specified list;
+# it looks in the REPOSITORY_LIST for those names and updates them.
+# this is just like checkout_list, but it's for the puffing up action
+# we need to do on git.
 function puff_out_list()
 {
   # make the list of directories unique.
@@ -379,9 +382,15 @@ function do_careful_git_update()
   test_or_die "changing to directory: $directory"
 
   if [ ! -d ".git" ]; then
-    # we ignore if they're jumping into a non-useful folder, but also tell them.
-    echo "Directory is not a git repository: $directory"
-    return 0
+
+#    # we ignore if they're jumping into a non-useful folder, but also tell them.
+#    echo "Directory is not a git repository: $directory"
+#    return 0
+
+    # new and better approach; just boil down to a getem action.
+    popd &>/dev/null
+    do_update $directory
+    return $?
   fi
 
   local this_branch="$(my_branch_name)"
@@ -411,7 +420,7 @@ function do_careful_git_update()
     remote_branch_info=$(git ls-remote --heads origin $bran 2>/dev/null)
     if [ ! -z "$remote_branch_info" ]; then
       # we are pretty sure the remote branch does exist.
-      git pull $PULL_ADDITION origin "$bran" | $TO_SPLITTER
+      git pull --tags $PULL_ADDITION origin "$bran" | $TO_SPLITTER
 # we may want to choose to do fast forward, to avoid crazy multiple merge histories
 # without any changes in them.  --no-ff
       promote_pipe_return 0
@@ -425,7 +434,7 @@ function do_careful_git_update()
 
   # now pull down any changes in our own origin in the repo, to stay in synch
   # with any changes from others.
-  git pull $PULL_ADDITION --all | $TO_SPLITTER
+  git pull --tags $PULL_ADDITION --all | $TO_SPLITTER
 #is the above really important when we did this branch already in the loop?
 #it does an --all, but is that effective or different?  should we be doing that in above loop?
 # --no-ff   
@@ -467,7 +476,7 @@ function do_update()
   elif [ -d ".git" ]; then
     if test_writeable ".git"; then
       $blatt
-      git pull $PULL_ADDITION 2>&1 | grep -v "X11 forwarding request failed" | $TO_SPLITTER
+      git pull --tags $PULL_ADDITION 2>&1 | grep -v "X11 forwarding request failed" | $TO_SPLITTER
 #ordinary pulls should be allowed to do fast forward: --no-ff 
       promote_pipe_return 0
       test_or_die "git pull of origin"