To pull the cloned remote branch by using url [where the repo saved] from other directory

I used code to clone like this from the simple-git npm package

var gulp=require('gulp');
 const simpleGit=require('simple-git');
 const git=simpleGit();
 gulp.task('d',  async function()
 {
 await git.clone( repository ,localfoldername,{'--branch': branch name})
 shell.cd(localfoldername)
 await git.pull()
 }

While running the gulp task in a terminal in visual studio code as ‘d:/default> gulp d’

cloning is done with a local folder But pull will not occur Because the gull command worked on ‘d:/default>’ where there will remote repository ‘origin’ was saved It was saved in ‘d:/default/localfolder’ there I need to pull Please suggest to me how to overcome this, I am new to both gulp and git

where there is an option to move to remote branch URL then clone

or other suggestions

git

[steveukx]

The git.exec method (as documented .exec(handlerFn) | calls a simple function in the current step) is a way to call a function, so you can be sure the function is executed between any other chained methods (though in your example you don’t chain methods as you just use the one git instance and await each time).

To call out to a shell command like npm install etc, you would need to use something like child_process.exec - documentation for this is on the node website at https://nodejs.org/dist/latest-v14.x/docs/api/child_process.html#child_process_child_process_exec_command_options_callback

For example:

const {exec} = require('child_process');
const repoDir = require('path').join(__dirname, 'new');

exec('npm install', { cwd: repoDir });

[karthiganesh476]

Hi,

• I want to store the output of simple-git command in variable
• ex: var current_branch= ‘git.branch()’
• [ git branch -> if the branch= development then current_branch =“development”]

const gulp = require('gulp');
 const simpleGit = require('simple-git');
 var argument = require('yargs').argv;
 var shell=require("shelljs");
 var fs=require('fs')
 gulp.task('work', async function (done) {
   const git = simpleGit();
   const repoDir = require('path').join(__dirname,argument.local_folder);
   if(!fs.existsSync(repoDir))
   {
     await git.clone(argument.repository, argument.local_folder, {'--branch':argument.branch});
     await git.cwd(repoDir);
   }
   else
   {
   await git.cwd(repoDir);
    let current_branch;
    current_branch = `git.branch()`
     console.log(current_branch);
     let cloning_branch =argument.branch;
     console.log(cloning_branch);
    if(current_branch != cloning_branch)
    {
      console.log("checkout............")
      await git.checkout(argument.branch)
      await git.clean(['f','d','x'])
      await git.pull()
    }
    else
    {
      console.log("Clean........................")
     await git.clean(['f','d','x'])
     await git.pull()
    }

   }
 done()
 });