So, Is there a difference between "svn update" and "svn checkout"?

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:39 PM, Platonides <platonides@gmail.com> wrote:
On 10/04/12 21:39, Christopher David Howie wrote:
> On 04/10/2012 03:23 PM, محمد الجداوي wrote:
>> Hi all. Every day i update my pywikipedia folder on toolserver by
>> typing: svn checkout
>> http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/pywikipedia/trunk/pywikipedia
>> How can i make a cron for updating every day at 10:03 p.m? Thanks
>> in advance.
>
> I'm not sure why you would be issuing "svn checkout" daily -- is
> there a reason you cannot "svn update"?

In svn a checkout of its remote location to an existing checkout is
equivalente to svn up it. In most other vcs he wouldn't have been able
to do that.


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I like it, although a bit large IMHO. I guess it can be freely adapted
and reused?


Regards


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