CVS automated batch updates
by Bil Simser · 07/07/2003 (10:28 am) · 1 comments
As some of you use WinCVS to get your updates to HEAD, I've found it a bit of pain and something that should be simple. There is a TCL plugin for WinCVS but that was another scripting language I didn't want to pick up and for those that prefer the command line I like this approach. It's a simple DOS style batch file that will login to CVS and grab the HEAD release of Torque.
It's automatic (with minimal error checking) but can be automated through the task scheduler (I have mine running every week to grab whatever updates are available). Optionally you can run your compiler after getting the files and rebulid the system so Saturday morning you're good to go with a new version. This can also be easily turned into a shell script to do the same thing for Linux.
Replace the and parts with your own values as I'm not about to share mine with you ;)
Just as a side note, I pull down a copy of HEAD but that's my virgin copy. I actually build from a duplicate of HEAD where I do any mods. After pulling down HEAD from CVS each week, I merge in any changes with my work directory so it keeps the head copy clean. That's just how I work, your milage may vary.
Hope this resource makes your life simpler.
It's automatic (with minimal error checking) but can be automated through the task scheduler (I have mine running every week to grab whatever updates are available). Optionally you can run your compiler after getting the files and rebulid the system so Saturday morning you're good to go with a new version. This can also be easily turned into a shell script to do the same thing for Linux.
Replace the
Just as a side note, I pull down a copy of HEAD but that's my virgin copy. I actually build from a duplicate of HEAD where I do any mods. After pulling down HEAD from CVS each week, I merge in any changes with my work directory so it keeps the head copy clean. That's just how I work, your milage may vary.
Hope this resource makes your life simpler.
rem rem This simple batch file checks out the HEAD revision from CVS rem using the command line version of CVS.EXE. It also does rem basic errorlevel checking to make sure everything works rem and builds the HEAD revision after a successful checkout rem rem If you build from the HEAD release you could trigger a build rem script (using Ant, NAnt or another makefile) to rebuild the system rem @echo off cls echo Torque HEAD Grabber v1.0 echo. echo A simple batch file (can be run as a scheduled task) to echo grab the HEAD release from Garage Games CVS repository echo and download to your system. echo. rem rem Set the CVS root to point to where HEAD is rem set CVSROOT=:pserver:<username>@cvs.garagegames.com:/cvs/torque rem rem This logs us in using our password (yes, clear text so not secure but automated) rem cvs -z6 -d :pserver:<username>:<password>@cvs.garagegames.com:/cvs/torque login if errorlevel 0 goto gethead goto exit rem rem So far so good, now grab the HEAD release rem :gethead echo Login successful echo. rem rem Optional. I keep the HEAD release in a HEAD directory so comment out rem the next line and the cd later if you want to just grab it in the current dir rem cd head echo Getting HEAD release... please wait cvs -z6 update -P -d if errorlevel 0 goto logout goto exit rem rem Everything worked and we now have an updated HEAD release so logout of CVS rem :logout echo Update complete... cleaning up rem rem Optional. If you have your HEAD release in a subdir this just backs out again. rem Comment out if you just grab it in the current dir. rem cd .. cvs logout goto exit rem rem Clean up and clear our environmental variable. You could do an automated build here if you wanted. rem :exit set CVSROOT= echo All done!
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Torque Owner Saurav Mohapatra
nice script ...sorry could not resist the cheap shot