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The continuous integration server Hudson knows several ways to trigger a build. If you’d like Hudson to build your project when the source-base changes and you don’t want to let him poll your Subversion periodically let Subversion trigger the build upon commit. To do that, first, configure your job in Hudson (Job -> Configure -> Build Triggers) with “Trigger builds remotely (e.g., from scripts)” (“uDoo” is the job name, so replace it with your job name):

Second, configure a post-commit hook in your Subversion repository: In the repository directory of your Subversion-server, a directory hook exists. In this directory you may already have a file post-commit with 744 permissions. If not, a file post-commit.tmpl exists. In that case, copy the file and change the permissions:

$ cd path/to/your/repository/hook
$ cp post-commit.tmpl post-commit
$ chmod 744 post-commit

To trigger the build via Subversion, just put the following line at the end of the post-commit file.

wget -b http://HUDSON_URL/job/JOB_NAME/build?token=my_automated_build > /dev/null

That’s it.