[ciapug] Subversion for Web Dev SCM

[Barry Von Ahsen]

Vanish has minions?

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-barry


Chris Van Cleve wrote:
> Yes, I have a three tiered environment.
> 
> All developers have access to the trunk, and can export to the 
> development web area for testing.
> Only I have access to the Staging and Production web areas. I chose to 
> export instead of checkout to the web areas to reduce unnecessary 
> clutter with .svn files and directories in the web tree.
> 
> Unfortunately it looks like my only option for managing the include 
> files is with a separate repository. Makes the mental management for 
> developers a bit thicker but I think we can all handle it. Hell, I'm 
> just happy I'm not the sole web developer anymore. I have lackeys to 
> dump the monotonous coding on. ;D
> 
> Chris VC
> 
> On Mar 8, 2006, at 8:51 AM, <Daniel.Juliano at wellsfargo.com> 
> <Daniel.Juliano at wellsfargo.com> wrote:
> 
>> If I read your question properly, this sounds like a three environment 
>> system issue.
>>
>> In a perfect-for-deployment world, you would want to have a scripts 
>> that run for:
>> 1) check out to development environment (typically, developers machines)
>> 2) check out to test environment (hopefully a box that developers have 
>> restricted access to)
>> 3) check out to production environment (hopefully a box that 
>> developers have no access to whatsoever)
>>
>> The test and production scripts should be handed a version number to 
>> check out, which allows you to 'certify' a particular build number as 
>> production-ready.  There may be a multi-week gap between deploy to 
>> test and deploy to production, and your developers can continue 
>> checking in changes against the trunk without impacting your deployments.
>> Daniel Juliano
>>
>>
>> From: ciapug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:ciapug-bounces at cialug.org] On 
>> Behalf Of Tim Champion
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 4:02 PM
>> To: ciapug at cialug.org
>> Subject: Re: [ciapug] Subversion for Web Dev SCM
>>
>> My current employer uses svn successfully, although I'm far from an 
>> expert on svn :)
>> What we do here, is have each developer checkout their development 
>> branch onto their local machine (which is a LAMP box). I think you 
>> answered your own question, and you would have to checkout the trunk 
>> or a devel branch (or whatever you want to test) to a test web server, 
>> or to the subdomain's DocumentRoot of your SVN server if that's where 
>> you want it to run.
>>
>> On 3/7/06, Chris Van Cleve <vanish at dreamscapevisionery.com> wrote:
>> IS anyone out there successfully using Subversion for SCM on their
>> web development projects? I'm having a bear of time getting my head
>> around making it work. I have svn installed and working properly. No
>> problems there, both server and client. Here's my conundrum:
>>
>> I have my code in a repository and all of the developers can access
>> it through svn just fine. Checkin, checkout, etc. What I can't make
>> work is having the dev code running in a sub-domain. Do I need to
>> export the trunk to a web-enabled directory? I need the SCM only for
>> preventing code loss and overwrites between developers. I can't point
>> Apache to the repository because, well, the files aren't really
>> there... and running a live web instance on your trunk code just
>> sounds like an idea firmly lodged in the 'bad' category to me.
>>
>> Any help greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Chris VC
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