Comments on: World’s simplest source code updater

By: Chris Sutton

Chris Sutton — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:15:50 +0000

@Jason, I wasn’t aware that you could do multiple selects and updates. I think the latest version of the script would be faster on all counts for my purposes though.

Chris

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:44:01 +0000

Since you’re unaware of it, you can select multiple directories and do a Tortoise update on all of them at the same time. If you don’t want to resort to a script.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 04:45:49 +0000

Whoops sorry. Noticed just now that (a) Tim Barcz already suggests something similar (although far more elaborate) and (b) you said “world’s *simplest* …”

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 04:43:59 +0000

If you use a FOR-loop it looks a little nicer (replace the “…” with the rest of your directories; I’ve been lazy

for %%i in (witty ironruby …) do (
svn up %%i
)

By: Frictionless Subversion Updates - Tim Barcz

Frictionless Subversion Updates - Tim Barcz — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:20:52 +0000

[...] and fellow blogger Chris Sutton wrote a post the other day about updating source code with batch file. I found it quite helpful given the number of open source projects I follow (or attempt to) [...]

By: Tim Barcz

Tim Barcz — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:08:09 +0000

After manually updating different projects manually I am finding that the above is great….and easy.
Tim