[Dxspider-support] updating with GIT

[Fabrizio Alberti]

Thanks for your clarification.
I add that command too!
Il 25/nov/2014 18:02 "Dirk Koopman" <djk at tobit.co.uk> ha scritto:

> Because it removes any inadvertent changes to any files that are in
> version control (it doesn't alter any other files).
>
> I don't always update cty.dat in a timely fashion and some sysops don't
> want to update the software, but DO want the latest prefixes. So these
> sysops just update cty.dat and wpxloc.raw and run create_prefix.pl
> manually.
>
> If, sometime in the future, they try a git pull, it will moan and groan
> about all the "local changes" and fail. Doing the 'git reset --hard' undoes
> those prefix changes and the git pull will then succeed.
>
> I really must get around to moving stuff about so that there is a
> "local_data" directory, in the same way as there are "local" and
> "local_cmd" directories. The problem with this is that I suspect that there
> will be things that could break in some nodes that have used the opensource
> nature of the code and done their own thing - expecting stuff to be where
> it has always been.
>
> Dirk
>
> On 25/11/14 16:13, Fabrizio Alberti wrote:
>
>> Why you also the git reset command too?
>>
>> Inviato da cellulare
>>
>> Il 25/nov/2014 17:10 "Dirk Koopman" <djk at tobit.co.uk
>> <mailto:djk at tobit.co.uk>> ha scritto:
>>
>>     Mike & Fabrizio
>>
>>     I agree that it is probably not a good idea to have an automatic
>>     update as source control can go wrong, particularly if one ever does
>>     any mods or updates the prefix list manually.
>>
>>     But if I were doing it, bearing in mind that I don't use a httpd
>>     interface nor copy my spots into a database, and that also I don't
>>     do any (unofficial [cough] :-) mods, then this line of cron may help
>>     you:
>>
>>     13 3 * * 2 cd /spider; git reset --hard; git pull; service dxspider
>>     restart
>>
>>
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