I would like to git pull, mit and push from nodeJS with child_process - is this suppose to work?

var cmd = require('child_process');
var mmandString = "cd c:\\xampp\\htdocs\\MenuMakerServer\\experiments\\editormenu && git mit -am 'menu.json changes'    && git push origin main";

 cmd.exec(mmandString , function (error: any, stdout, stderr) {
        if (error) {
            callback(error.stack, null);
        }
    });

EDIT:

OK, I managed to get this to work:

var sys = require('sys')
var exec = require('child_process').exec;
function puts(error, stdout, stderr) { sys.puts(stdout) }

var options = {cwd:"c:\\xampp\\htdocs\\MenuMakerServer\\projects\\editormenu"};

exec("git status && git pull && git mit -am 'menu changed' && git push", options, puts);

I would like to git pull, mit and push from nodeJS with child_process - is this suppose to work?

var cmd = require('child_process');
var mmandString = "cd c:\\xampp\\htdocs\\MenuMakerServer\\experiments\\editormenu && git mit -am 'menu.json changes'    && git push origin main";

 cmd.exec(mmandString , function (error: any, stdout, stderr) {
        if (error) {
            callback(error.stack, null);
        }
    });

EDIT:

OK, I managed to get this to work:

var sys = require('sys')
var exec = require('child_process').exec;
function puts(error, stdout, stderr) { sys.puts(stdout) }

var options = {cwd:"c:\\xampp\\htdocs\\MenuMakerServer\\projects\\editormenu"};

exec("git status && git pull && git mit -am 'menu changed' && git push", options, puts);

• javascript
• node.js

• No that won't work... it looks like you are bining both DOS shell mands and Unix shell mands. Specifically c:\ is DOS and using && to chain mands is Unix shell. Which environment are you using? – Hogan Commented Aug 6, 2013 at 18:03
• mmm... i guess that using cygwin (new to it) made me confused.. – Guy Commented Aug 6, 2013 at 18:04
• works now - should i delete the questions? (tnx.btw) – Guy Commented Aug 6, 2013 at 18:06
• 1 You should post your (correct) cwd solution as an answer and accept it. :) – Ry- ♦ Commented Aug 6, 2013 at 18:09
• Guy - I agree with @minitech – Hogan Commented Aug 6, 2013 at 19:17

2 Answers 2

Define a node.js module something like below code.

exports.series = function(cmds, callback){
    var execNext = function(){
        exports.exec(cmds.shift(), function(error){
            if (error) {
                callback(error);
            } else {
                if (cmds.length) execNext();
                else callback(null);
            }
        });
    };
    execNext();
};

Then you can run it:

myProcessor.series([
    'cd c:\\xampp\\htdocs\\MenuMakerServer\\experiments\\editormenu'
    'git mit -am "menu.json changes"',
    'git push origin main '
], function(err){
   console.log('executed many mands in a row'); 
});

NOTE: Here myProcessor is the require variable name (somethig like var myProcessor = require('./path/to/above/code/file');) for the above code snippet.

No that won't work... it looks like you are bining both DOS shell mands and Unix shell mands. Specifically c:\ is DOS and using && to chain mands is Unix shell. Which environment are you using?

If you are using DOS then you need make a .bat and call the batch. This is nice becasuse you can use parameters.