I watched Mark Esher's presention "ANT On The Wire: Using FTP, Email, SVN, and VSS" a couple weeks ago and liked the idea of scheduling an ant to do my SVN updates before I get into the office. He was kind enough to provide a zip of his files from the presention. Please watch the presentation to see how to setup ant.

I modified his code a little so the following is based off his zip and assumes you have everything working he covered. I am storing a list of my working copy locations, my svn username, and my svn password in his unames.properties files. I changed the GetLatest.xml code to an update instead of a checkout and added a loop so I could update all my working copys. The looping feature is accomplished with Ant-Contrib. You will have to install this like Mark shows for the other jars.

I made a bat file to fire off the GetLatest.xml Ant. It also creates a log file for the latest run.

I created a shortcurt of the bat file, putting it in my start menu so I can fire it easily. I also put a shortcut in my startup just incase Windows Task Scheduler doesn't work. I set Windows Task Scheduler to run the bat file every morning before I get into the office.

Included in my zip is the revised GetLatest.xml, unames.properties, GetLatest.bat, and GetLatest.log files

Files in zip:
GetLatest.xml - ant script to run svn update over a list of working copy paths
unames.properties – contains variabes settings such svn login information and working copy paths
GetLatest.bat – runs the GetLatest.xml ant and outputs a log files
GetLatest.log – output from running the GetLatest.bat

GetLatest.xml
<project name="Update SVN Working Copies — ANT" default="updateSVN" basedir=".">
<target name="init" depends="defTasks">
<property name="unames.file" value="buildprops/unames.properties" />
<!— reads this properties file and adds all properties therein as ant properties —>
<property file="${unames.file}" />
</target>

<target name="updateSVN" depends="init">
<for list="${wc.locations}" param = "val">
<sequential>
<svn username="${svn.username}" password="${svn.password}">
<update dir="@{val}" />
</svn>
<echo>testSVN Successfull for @{val}</echo>
</sequential>
</for>
</target>

<target name="defTasks">
<!— set the standard DSTAMP, TSTAMP, TODAY properties —>
<tstamp />
<echo>${TODAY} ${TSTAMP}</echo>
<path id="project.classpath">
<pathelement location="${ant.home}libsvnant.jar" />
<pathelement location="${ant.home}libsvnClientAdapter.jar" />
<pathelement location="${ant.home}libsvnjavahl.jar" />
</path>

<taskdef name="svn" classname="org.tigris.subversion.svnant.SvnTask" />

<taskdef resource="net/sf/antcontrib/antlib.xml">
<classpath>
<pathelement location="${ant.home}libant-contrib-1.0b3.jar"/>
</classpath>
</taskdef>
</target>
</project>

unames.properties
#for ftp
ftp.username=???
ftp.password=???
ftp.site=???
#for email
email.from=???
email.to=???
email.host=???
#for svn
svn.username=yourUsername
svn.password=yourPassword
#list of working copy locations comma seperated
wc.locations=C:/location/workingCopy1/,C:/location/workingCopy2/,C:/location/workingCopy3/

GetLatest.bat
ant -buildfile GetLatest.xml -v -logfile GetLatest.log

Schedule Updating SVN Working Copies — ANT