Django and Subversion Hourly Updates

So if you are developing with Django and python you may be running off the Django SVN trunk. It can be a pain constantly running the update command when you simply want to be up with the development. Of course you would run this on a development server and not a production server! But i have figured out a way to get Subversion to update the django trunk every hour. You can do this on a unix system or mac!

1. Firstly you need to get into your superuser account and run the cron editor. this can be done via: sudo crontab -e
2. You will be asked for your super user password. Next up find a new line in the editor, usually vi, and type this: 0 * * * * svn up /home/user/django_trunk/ >> /home/user/log.txt
3. That’s it! Simply change the paths to match your system. So the /home/user/django_trunk would be the path to where you first installed the django trunk. The second path is where a log file will be produced to show you the updates that the subversion has updated django to.