A thin MATLAB wrapper for the Git source control system

Use this exactly as you would use the OS command-line Git, but from within MATLAB

Description

Detailed documentation for this utility is available here:
http://raghavan.info/blog/2010/10/30/make-matlab-git-play-well-together/

If you have modifications to this file that you'd like to share, I welcome them. Please follow the instructions on issuing a pull request at the main repo to do this:

https://github.com/manur/MATLAB-git

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A thin MATLAB wrapper for Git.

  Short instructions:
      Use this exactly as you would use the OS command-line verison of Git.

  Long instructions are:
      See: http://raghavan.info/blog/2010/10/30/make-matlab-git-play-well-together/

• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7.11 (R2010b)
• Other requirements: Must have Git installed on the OS that MATLAB runs on: http://git-scm.com/download

[Alex Liberzon]

 

[Tyler]

There might be an issue with using this wonderful utility to upload to a remote git repository using https. (on a mac) Git push uses curl to send the files to the repository (e.g. bitbucket) but the version of libcurl included in the MATLAB application bundle doesn't support https. To address this issue, just rename the included libcurl to something else (i.e. libcurl.old) and copy the newest version easily available from someplace like MacPorts. Make sure you add +ssl when getting the latest version of curl from MacPorts (sudo port install curl +ssl). This will then allow you to call git push to an https remote repository from inside the MATLAB command line.

[Stephanie Liu]

I am new to git, and it is very usefule when control matlab project version.
one thing is, I need to use (git commit -m "new change in foo.m") to make it work in Linux.

[Manu Raghavan]

@Kay-Uwe Kirstein,

Certain git operations page the output text stream. Shelling out with the system call causes this to hang unless the output is piped. See my commit on 12 Mar 2011.

[Kay-Uwe Kirstein]

I have implemented a similar wrapper by myself and I am just wondering why are you piping the output thru 'cat' or 'type'?

@Luis-Emanual: using double-quotes (") instead of single-ones (') should work.

[Louis-Emmanuel Martinet]

Hi,
commit is not working for me, because the ' is removed. Example:
>> git commit -m 'Created new file, foo.m'
error: pathspec 'new' did not match any file(s) known to git.
error: pathspec 'file,' did not match any file(s) known to git.
error: pathspec 'foo.m' did not match any file(s) known to git.

Because the system function receives:
git commit -m Created new file, foo.m

I don't understand why it is working for you guys...

[Matthew Arthington]

I agree with Matt, setting to prog to 'cat' makes this work properly.

[Matt]

It looks like for MsysGit (v1.7.7 anyway, on XP), that the git command and arguments should be piped to cat, not type.

So if you're having some difficulties on Windows - in the form of an error message about incorrect syntax - try removing the "if ispc" conditional block at line 69 and setting the value of "prog" to "cat".

[John Stowers]

This works better for me on linux

[status,i_] = system('git status');

% if git is in the path this will return a status of 0 or 128
% depending on whether we are sitting in a repository or not
% it will return a 1 only if the command is not found

if (status==0)
% call the real git with the arguments
arguments = parse(varargin{:});
[i_,result] = system(['git --no-pager ',arguments]);
disp(result)
elseif (status==128)
warning('Not a git repository');
else
error('git is not installed');
end

[Manu Raghavan]

@Mikhail, the shell-out operator '!' cannot capture outputs of shell commands, which is relevant for some operations, like knowing if git is even on the path.

Using the SYSTEM command over the ! operator also fixes issues related to multi-page scrolling views, like looking up git help operations.

[Mikhail]

How is it different from !git init, !git status etc?..

[HaveF]

Does it can be used in Windows? when use MSysGit? Maybe not

[the cyclist]

 

[Timothy Hansell]

This is a very good little utility.
I've found it useful on both windows and Mac OS X.