From: Ryan Schmidt <subversion-2008c_at_ryandesign.com>
> You can run a mirror of your Subversion repository at your datacenter
> if you want. The tool is called svnsync.
>
> However it sounds like your real goal is to have a web site at your
> data center, and the content of the web site comes from the
> repository. In that case, you want what you don't want: you want to
> "svn update" the web site at the data center when changes are made to
> your development server.
>
> You're right that a potentially unstable network can cause problems
> for "svn update". Unlike operations which write to the repository
> (like "svn commit"), "svn update" is not atomic. So what we did at
> the company where I worked was to "svn update" a working copy that
> the web server didn't know about. When that was done, we used "svn
> export" to create a new directory whose name was based on the tag
> name (or you could use the revision number or the date if you're not
> using tags). Finally, a symlink "current" was deleted and re-pointed
> at the new export directory. And the web server only knew about the
> symlink. In this way, you can easily and very quickly change your
> live site from one version to the next -- and even go back to a
> previous version if necessary (just put the symlink back to an older
> export).
>
> There's a perl script that has been helpfully written to help with
> these type of deployments. I haven't had a chance to use it, but
> perhaps it will help you:
>
> http://search.cpan.org/search?query=SVN::Notify::Mirror
Thx for your reply.
The thing is that right now we have several websites and a rather "complex" file hierarchy composed of several svn repositories...
Duplicating and playing with many symlinks might be a little too much in this context.
But svnsync sounds good; why wouldn't it work for a website...?
Can't I svnsync the repositories to our datacenter and then svn update localy from it?
Does snvsync handle updates as patches too?
Like, if I change 1 line in 500 1000000 lines files, will it transfer 500 one line diffs or the whole 500 files?
Thx,
JD
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Received on 2008-09-24 13:51:34 CEST