Svn update script skips the svn

Question

I'm trying to create a script that will execute a svn update on the root but I don't understand the results I'm getting. Here is the code executed by my script:

$update = "svn --username user --password pwd update svn://URL";
$res = exec($update);
echo $res;

However, the echo of the $res gives me " Skipped 'svn://URL' ".

I've used a similar method to do a svn checkout and it worked fine. Is there something I'm missing to be able to do the update?

Answer 1

Make sure you're inside a Working copy. If the script runs in a non-SVN directory, you'll get this error:

  Skipped '/non/workingcopy/path'

Answer 2

Probably your script is running outside the working copy. Anyway... if you are developing under *NIX environment, you can also try this approach:

$result = shell_exec("/usr/bin/svn update /path/to/project --username user --password pass");