Test to determine if git clone command succeeded

Question

I tried to clone the git repository by passing the username, password. That was successful.

But what my intention is that I want to know whether the git clone command executed or not. If not, I would like to handle such kind of errors in shell script itself.

My working shell script:

cd ..
git clone https://username:[email protected]/username/repositoryname.git
cd repositoryname
git checkout branchname1
cd ..
mv repositoryname newfoldername
git clone https://username:[email protected]/username/respositoryname.git
cd repositoryname
git checkout branchname2
cd ..
mv repositoryname newfoldername

How do I test, in the script, whether these steps were successful?

Answer 1

The return value is stored in $?. 0 indicates success, others indicates error.

some_command
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
    echo OK
else
    echo FAIL
fi

I haven't tried it with git, but I hope this works.

Answer 2

if some_command
then
  echo "Successful"
fi

Example

if ! git clone http://example.com/repo.git
then
  echo "Failed"
else
  echo "Successful"
fi

See How to detect if a git clone failed in a bash script.