Make Git pull update automatically

JIKOmetrix

• February 10, 2023 16:38

I have a GIT a copy in my cpanel account. How do I get GIT to pull fresh files every 24 hours or when files change on on GIT to update my local copy? Can you do this with cron?

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  JIKOmetrix

  • February 11, 2023 16:05

  I think I'm on to something here. I test this at a terminal as the user: cd ${HOME}/repositories/IP-Lists; git fetch An it fetched the files from the remote git repositories placing them in the local. So I think I can make a crontab like this: cd ${HOME}/repositories/IP-Lists; git fetch or if I want no output emailed: cd ${HOME}/repositories/IP-Lists; git fetch > /dev/null 2>&1 Thanks for looking.

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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • February 13, 2023 15:39

  Hey there! That sounds like it should work, but you wouldn't want to use the "cd" command in cron as that usually doesn't work well.

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  JIKOmetrix

  • February 13, 2023 17:44

  Hey there! That sounds like it should work, but you wouldn't want to use the "cd" command in cron as that usually doesn't work well.

  
  Thanks. Can you be more clear about the CD command. It works or does not work, what does does not work well mean?

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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • February 13, 2023 19:13

  In my experience, and others, it doesn't work. There's some more recent discussion about this here:

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  JIKOmetrix

  • February 13, 2023 22:16

  Oooooooh, I understand now. :) Thanks.

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