Updated Approach to Scheduling

Dockerfile

@@ -2,17 +2,13 @@ FROM ubuntu:latest
 
 # Install necessary packages
 RUN apt-get update && \
-    apt-get install -y git curl cron rsync
+    apt-get install -y git curl rsync
 
-# Add script and cronjob
+# Add script
 COPY repo_watcher.sh /root/Repo_Watcher/repo_watcher.sh
-COPY crontab.txt /crontab.txt
 
 # Make script executable
 RUN chmod +x /root/Repo_Watcher/repo_watcher.sh
 
-# Apply cron job
-RUN crontab /crontab.txt
-
-# Start cron in foreground
-CMD ["cron", "-f"]
+# Start script
+CMD ["/bin/bash", "-c", "/root/Repo_Watcher/repo_watcher.sh"]

README.md

@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-**Basic Docker Run Command**:
-```
-docker run -e REPO_URL='https://your.git.repo.url' -e COPY_DIR='/your/copy/dir' -e NTFY_URL='https://your.ntfy.url' -e GIT_USERNAME='your_username' -e GIT_PASSWORD='your_password' git_repo_updater
-```

crontab.txt

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-* * * * * /bin/bash /root/Repo_Watcher/repo_watcher.sh

repo_watcher.sh

@@ -1,45 +1,52 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
-# Fetch environment variables
-repo_url=$REPO_URL
-copy_dir=$COPY_DIR
-ntfy_url=$NTFY_URL
-git_username=$GIT_USERNAME
-git_password=$GIT_PASSWORD
+while true; do
 
-# Set Git credentials
-git config --global credential.helper 'store --file /tmp/git-credentials'
-echo "url=$repo_url" > /tmp/git-credentials
-echo "username=$git_username" >> /tmp/git-credentials
-echo "password=$git_password" >> /tmp/git-credentials
+  # Fetch environment variables
+  repo_url=$REPO_URL
+  copy_dir=$COPY_DIR
+  ntfy_url=$NTFY_URL
+  git_username=$GIT_USERNAME
+  git_password=$GIT_PASSWORD
 
-# Navigate to the watcher directory
-cd /root/Repo_Watcher
+  # Set Git credentials
+  git config --global credential.helper 'store --file /tmp/git-credentials'
+  echo "url=$repo_url" > /tmp/git-credentials
+  echo "username=$git_username" >> /tmp/git-credentials
+  echo "password=$git_password" >> /tmp/git-credentials
 
-# Clone the repo if it doesn't exist
-if [ ! -d "repo" ]; then
+  # Navigate to the watcher directory
+  cd /root/Repo_Watcher
+
+  # Clone the repo if it doesn't exist
+  if [ ! -d "repo" ]; then
     git clone $repo_url repo
-fi
+  fi
 
-cd repo
+  cd repo
 
-# Fetch the latest changes
-git fetch origin main
+  # Fetch the latest changes
+  git fetch origin main
 
-# Check if the local repository is behind the remote
-LOCAL=$(git rev-parse @)
-REMOTE=$(git rev-parse @{u})
-BASE=$(git merge-base @ @{u})
+  # Check if the local repository is behind the remote
+  LOCAL=$(git rev-parse @)
+  REMOTE=$(git rev-parse @{u})
+  BASE=$(git merge-base @ @{u})
 
-if [ $LOCAL = $REMOTE ]; then
+  if [ $LOCAL = $REMOTE ]; then
       echo "Up-to-date"
-elif [ $LOCAL = $BASE ]; then
+  elif [ $LOCAL = $BASE ]; then
       echo "Need to pull"
       git pull origin main
       rsync -av --delete ./ $copy_dir
       curl -d "Data updated from Git repo" $ntfy_url
-elif [ $REMOTE = $BASE ]; then
+  elif [ $REMOTE = $BASE ]; then
       echo "Need to push"
-else
+  else
       echo "Data diverged"
-fi
+  fi
+
+  # Wait for 5 seconds before the next iteration
+  sleep 5
+
+done