How do I automatically update a Subversion working copy?

Question

Does anybody know how I can automatically run svn update? If anybody has a script or something like that, could you show me an example?

Answer 1

@echo off

cls
echo == Initiating system instance variables...
echo. -- Setting the variables...

:: Here you need to make some changes to suit your system.
set SOURCE=C:\sauce\CURRENT
set SVN=C:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN\bin

:: Unless you want to modify the script, this is enough.

echo. %SOURCE%
echo. %SVN%
echo. ++ Done setting variables.
echo.
echo == Updating source from SVN
echo. -- Running update...
"%SVN%\TortoiseProc.exe" /command:update /path:"%SOURCE%" /closeonend:2
echo. ++ Done.

echo. -- Cleaning up...
set SOURCE=
set SVN=
echo. ++ Done.

If you are using TortoiseSVN then the above batch script will suit fine. Otherwise you can just modify it to use whatever SVN client you are currently using. Just pop this in a .bat file and run it on demand.