Autocommit to SVN (if x time has gone by)

Hi,

I'm attempting to commit a folder to SVN whenever the contents change and it hasn't been committed by Hazel within the last day (to avoid filling my SVN repository with lots of tiny changes).

I've attempted to handle this using the following two sets of rules but it seems to be running the rules every few seconds and as a result is taking up a lot of RAM and processor cycles.

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The shell script I'm running is the following:

cd $1
svn update
svn commit -m "Autocommit"

Could anyone suggest a method of handling this without the overhead?

Many thanks,

Danny

The issue that you're running into seems to be that the modified date of the folder is changing every time a child file is changed. What I would do is something like this:

At the end of your commit script, write a temp file of the date of that commit:

Code: Select all: cd $1 svn update svn commit -m "Autocommit" date -j -f "%a %b %d %T %Z %Y" "`date`" "+%s" > .lastCommit

Note: I have hidden the file by putting a period in front of it. If you want the file to be visible, remove that.

Now, we have an easy marker to test against that is unrelated to the last time the folder was modified, but only related to the last time an SNV commit was made.

Now, in our rule, we add this:

Code: Select all: if (all) of the following conditions are met for (the file or folder being processed): Passes shell script (embedded script) ... Do the following to the matched file or folder: …

With the embedded script as this:

Code: Select all: if [ $(expr $(date -j -f "%a %b %d %T %Z %Y" "`date`" "+%s") - $(cat .lastCommit)) -gt 86400 ]; then exit 0; else exit 1; fi

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This will pass (i.e. exit 0) ONLY when the number of seconds since the last autocommit is greater than 24 hours.

Thank you very much for your help!

I couldn't get it to work with the date command given for some reason (although it really should work) as it returns the following error.

Code: Select all: Failed conversion of ``Thu 3 Jan 2013 10:56:58 GMT'' using format ``%a %b %d %T %Z %Y''

However, I think I've got it working correctly using the command:

Code: Select all: date -j +%s

I've pasted the complete code below in case it's useful to anyone else - presuming it's correct which it may not be.

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I've added a condition to check for the existence of the .lastcommit file. If it doesn't exist then the script passes.

Passes shell script:

Code: Select all: if [ ! -f .lastcommit ] then exit 0 fi if [ $(date -j +%s) - $(cat .lastCommit)) -gt 86400 ]; then exit 0; else exit 1; fi

Run shell script:

Code: Select all: cd $1 svn update svn commit -m "Autocommit" date -j +%s > .lastCommit

Cheers,

Danny

I note that your if statement does not have camel case for lastCommit. That may present a problem.

Good catch; thank you

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Danny