Gradle: How to perform git pull through gradle?

Question

I want to pull changes from git repo before compilation begins. I found this Gradle: how to clone a git repo in a task?, but it clones the repo instead of fetching just the cha

Answer 1

You can create Exec task and run any shell/cmd command. No extra plugin dependency required for simple tasks.

task gitPull(type: Exec) {
    description 'Pulls git.'
    commandLine "git", "pull"
}

Usage: gradlew gitPull

You should see smth like this:

gradlew gitPull 
Parallel execution is an incubating feature.
:app:gitPull 
Already up-to-date.

BUILD SUCCESSFUL

Total time: 9.232 secs

Where Already up-to-date. is the output from git pull command.