Git auto-pull using cronjob

Question

I was trying to create a cronjob with a task to do a git pull every minute to keep my production site in sync with my master branch.

The git pull needs

Answer 1

While you do need to figure out how to get the update to work in the first place, you'd be far better off using a hook from the upstream to make it go. You can do this simply with curl from a post-commit hook or if you're using github, just use a post-receive hook on their side.

Answer 2

I create a small script to deal with it.Then can use the by command crontab

crontab -e
0 2 * * * cd /root && ./gitpull.sh > /root/log/cron.log  2>&1 &

Here are the gitpull.sh:

#!/bin/bash

source /etc/profile
PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:~/bin
export PATH
export TERM=${TERM:-dumb}

#----------------------------------------
# Please set the following variable section
# Please set up working directories, use','split
# eg:path="/root/test/path1,/root/test/path2"
path=""
#----------------------------------------

# Do not edit the following section

# Check if user is root
[ $(id -u) != "0" ] && { echo "${CFAILURE}Error: You must run this script as root.${CEND}"; exit 1; } 2>&1

# Check if directory path exists
if [[ "${path}" = "" ]]; then 
    echo "${CFAILURE}Error: You must set the correct directory path.Exit.${CEND}" 2>&1
    exit 1
fi

# Check if command git exists
if ! [ -x "$(command -v git)" ]; then
    echo "${CFAILURE}Error: You may not install the git.Exit.${CEND}" 2>&1
    exit 1
fi

# Check where is command git
git_path=`which git`

# Start to deal the set dir
OLD_IFS="$IFS" 
IFS="," 
dir=($path) 
IFS="$OLD_IFS" 

echo "Start to execute this script." 2>&1

for every_dir in ${dir[@]} 
do 
    cd ${every_dir}
    work_dir=`pwd`
    echo "---------------------------------" 2>&1
    echo "Start to deal" ${work_dir} 2>&1
    ${git_path} pull
    echo "---------------------------------" 2>&1
done

echo "All done,thanks for your use." 2>&1

We have to set the work directory

Answer 3

*/1 * * * * su -s /bin/sh nobody -c 'cd /home/heilee/src/project && /usr/bin/git pull origin master'

This corrects a couple errors that prevented the accepted answer from working on my system (Ubuntu >10.04 server). The key change seems to be the -q after the pull rather than before. You won't notice that your pull isn't working until you tail the /var/log/syslog file or try to run your non-updated production code.

Answer 4

#!/bin/bash
cd /home/your_folder/your_folder && /usr/bin/git pull git@bitbucket.org:your_user/your_file.git

that is has been using by me and worked

Answer 5

Solution:

*/1 * * * * su -s /bin/sh nobody -c 'cd ~dstrt/www && /usr/local/bin/git pull -q origin master'