Make Git pull update automatically

[JIKOmetrix]

I have a GIT a copy in my cpanel account. How do I get GIT to pull fresh files every 24 hours or when files change on on GIT to update my local copy?

Can you do this with cron?

 

[JIKOmetrix]

I think I'm on to something here.

I test this at a terminal as the user: cd ${HOME}/repositories/IP-Lists; git fetch

An it fetched the files from the remote git repositories placing them in the local.

So I think I can make a crontab like this:
cd ${HOME}/repositories/IP-Lists; git fetch

or if I want no output emailed:
cd ${HOME}/repositories/IP-Lists; git fetch > /dev/null 2>&1

Thanks for looking.

 

[cPRex]

Hey there! That sounds like it should work, but you wouldn't want to use the "cd" command in cron as that usually doesn't work well.

 

[JIKOmetrix]

Hey there! That sounds like it should work, but you wouldn't want to use the "cd" command in cron as that usually doesn't work well.

Thanks. Can you be more clear about the CD command. It works or does not work, what does does not work well mean?

 

[cPRex]

In my experience, and others, it doesn't work. There's some more recent discussion about this here:

cd and cron?

Can someone explain to me why "cd" doesn't work in cron? I want to manipulate some files in a cron job, and I don't want to have to spell out the whole file address each time in my command line. I tried "PATH=workingdirectory; commandline" , and that doesn't seem to work either.

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[JIKOmetrix]

Oooooooh, I understand now.

Thanks.