Is it possible to schedule an svn update?

Question

I use eclipse galileo with subversive plugin or Tortoise SVN to do an update.

It is possible to schedule an auto-update (eg. every night)? If yes, is it possible to configure it to just update the non-conflicting files?

Solution 1

I use this command via a scheduled task - this assumes you have Silksvn installed (but any svn client will do this)

"C:\Program Files\SlikSvn\bin\svn" update --accept postpone d:\SourceCode >> c:\svn.log

It will only update files that aren't conflicting also, so no worry about that.

OR even, do it from TortoiseSVN using this command

C:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN\bin\TortoiseProc.exe /command:update /path:d:\sourcecode /closeonend:1

closeonend can be one of these

/closeonend:0 don't close the dialog automatically 

/closeonend:1 auto close if no errors 

/closeonend:2 auto close if no errors and conflicts 

/closeonend:3 auto close if no errors, conflicts and merges 

/closeonend:4 auto close if no errors, conflicts and merges for local operations 

Solution 2

Just schedule a task to run a batch file every night. The batch file just calls an svn update using a Subversion command line client. Simple enough, right?

Solution 3

I had the same problem with the popup lingering when the connection dropped, so I just installed a command line version of svn and checked the returned ERRORLEVEL using a Windows batch script

Comments

[Kornel Kisielewicz]

Primo, this is a superuser.com question, Secundo, it's a question about the OS, not Subversion/Eclipse.

[marcel_g]

Anyone have it where the /closeonend param doesn't actually close the dialog? We set it to :1, but there are connection errors about once a day that cause errors, so it ends up hanging all the svn updates to our QA server.

[Martin]

/closeonend:0 keeps the dialog open, as the answer says.