Function ShouldCheckForExtensionUpdate

internal/update/update.go:41–49

ShouldCheckForExtensionUpdate decides whether we check for updates for GitHub CLI extensions based on user preferences and current execution context. During cli/cli#9934, this logic was split out from ShouldCheckForUpdate() because we envisioned it going in a different direction.

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// ShouldCheckForExtensionUpdate decides whether we check for updates for GitHub CLI extensions based on user preferences and current execution context.
// During cli/cli#9934, this logic was split out from ShouldCheckForUpdate() because we envisioned it going in a different direction.
func ShouldCheckForExtensionUpdate() bool {
	if os.Getenv("GH_NO_EXTENSION_UPDATE_NOTIFIER") != "" {
		return false
	}
	if os.Getenv("CODESPACES") != "" {
		return false
	}
	return !ci.IsCI() && IsTerminal(os.Stdout) && IsTerminal(os.Stderr)
}

// CheckForExtensionUpdate checks whether an update exists for a specific extension based on extension type and recency of last check within past 24 hours.
func CheckForExtensionUpdate(em extensions.ExtensionManager, ext extensions.Extension, now time.Time) (*ReleaseInfo, error) {