SVN Hooks

I am working on a project where I need directory of my cakePHP application on the server update on each svn commit. Why? Because I am lazy. I don't want to login to remote server every time I commit something, run svn update...or worse ftp. So I've been reading about svn hooks, and it's a very powerful thing.

These are the steps to make it work:

• 
  Create and compile c program that will perform svn update, and save it somewhere let's say in /svn/autoupdate
  
  
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  1. #include <stddef.h>  
  2. #include <stdlib.h>  
  3. #include <unistd.h>  
  4. int main(void)  
  5. {  
  6. execl("/usr/local/bin/svn", "svn", "update",  
  7. "${dirNameToUpdate}",  
  8.       (const char *) NULL);  
  9. return(EXIT_FAILURE);  
  10. }  
  11. </unistd.h></stdlib.h></stddef.h>  

  
  #include 
  #include 
  #include 
  int main(void)
  {
  execl("/usr/local/bin/svn", "svn", "update",
  "${dirNameToUpdate}",
        (const char *) NULL);
  return(EXIT_FAILURE);
  }
  

  
  


• 
  Add post-commit to svnrepo/hooks where compiled c program is referenced:
  
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  1. #!/bin/sh  
  2. /svn/autoupdate/autoupdate  

  
  #!/bin/sh
  /svn/autoupdate/autoupdate
  

  
  


• chmod +x post-commit

Try to commit something to svn on remote server and watch svn hooks magic in action.