I'm using git for the purposes of making a historical transcript of the changes made to my project. I understand it's not the ideal usage but it's the usage pattern I've chosen for various reasons which I won't get into for the sake of brevity.
How would I create a cron job that would commit the changes to the repository each day or week?
I'm using the latest version of git on Ubuntu 10.10.
Best Answer
That will run the command specified (replace
/path_to_script'
) at 20:00 local time every Sunday. The syntax for cron jobs is fairly simple, and there's a slick tool that will help you create them without remembering the code positions.In this case, the command should be a script that runs the commit for you. I think it would be easiest in your case to write a quick shell script to change to the clone directory and then run the commit. Create a file at
~/commit.sh
and put this in it (replacing/location/of/clone
, of course)Then
chmod +x ~/commit.sh
to make it executable, and have the cron job run that (referring to it by it's full path, rather than using~
).