Comments on: svk sync smerge

By: Nicholas Lee

Nicholas Lee — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:54:41 +0000

What exact do you mean by “auto sync”. auto merge or auto commit?

If you use cron you can set up either a git pull or git push command in a script – but merging will still need to be done by a developer.

By: Krishna Pothula

Krishna Pothula — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:24:53 +0000

Hi Nicholas,

I am trying out Git. Our requirement is to have a Central Repository and multiple remote repositories. Do you know of a way to auto sync Central with remote repositories using Git?

Thanks

By: Nicholas_Lee

Nicholas_Lee — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:40:59 +0000

Yes git allows multiple remote repositories.

If you need to run the cron job as root. Then add it to the root crontab: "sudo crontab -e -u root".

If you need to run it as another user, run it as root and use sudo -u USER.

If you run a script with sudo and if requires a password, then it will just fail.

By: Kim

Kim — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:35:38 +0000

Ok the reason why I had to get SVK was cause we had repository in a remote server and trac wouldn't work with that. Would GIT allow me to user a remote repository?

Everything got tangled up because when I first set up svk, I moved the .svk or svk depot path to somewhere I don't have permission and that's why it requires me to sudo to sync, and that's why cron doesnt work.
So I un-installed svk and re-installed it to start all over but,,, hopefully things will work out.

If nothing works my last resort is git so I was wondering if it works with remote repo.

Thanks a lot for the fast reply

By: Kim

Kim — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:26:36 +0000

Ok the reason why I had to get SVK was cause we had repository in a remote server and trac wouldn't work with that. Would GIT allow me to user a remote repository?
I'm reading http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/GitPlugin but it says point trac to your local git repository.

Yeah I'm trying to get rid of sudo to call svk sync. If i don't have to do that things are cron would work.

Thanks again for your help

By: Nicholas_Lee

Nicholas_Lee — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:00:10 +0000

Yes git will work with Trac. See google for the plugin.

sudo might be causing the problem.

By: Kim

Kim — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:54:14 +0000

thank you so much for the quick reply.
I think the problem is having sudo in there. It works completely fine on cmd.

I've noticed that many svk users have moved to git. Is git compatible with trac?

Thanks so much

By: Nicholas_Lee

Nicholas_Lee — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:51:51 +0000

I'm mostly using git now. Not sure I can help you, but the basic principle of any cron script is to make sure it runs on the command line first.

By: Kim

Kim — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:09:13 +0000

Hi,

I hope this will reach you, I didn't know how to contact you via email.

I am using svk to mirror repository in a different server for trac.
I've been trying to setup cronjob to sync it with the repo forever but it is not working.
The script I have is:
———
#!/bin/bash
PATH=$PATH:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
sudo sh
svk sync //mirror
——
crontab:
PATH=/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/sbin
00 * * * * /path/to/script/svkcron > /home/akim/cron.log
echo "update complete: $(date)"
———

and the output is
——–
Starting to synchronize //mirror
Syncincg svn://path.to.rep/dev
update complete: Tue Aug 11 11:00:00 EDT 2009

I got it until it says "Syncing svn.." but it isn't retrieving any information.
I am running it from the root's crontab with out the sudo command in a different script but that only output
"Repository doesn't exist, create? (y/n)"
and i can't create mirror as the root. (I read it somewhere on svk hp)

If you can help me please do, any help is extremely appreciated…

Thank you,