Re: IIS Website versioning

Jeff Cave wrote:

>I am currently working on a website for a client that I have under version control.
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>I was thinking that I could have a live working copy of head to allow the client to see where we are in the development process. This copy of head would be checked out by a post-commit script evertime someone committed to head.
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>I have had a working copy checked out under IIS and had the folder get locked up and all sorts of nastiness (this was with an old version). I was wondering if anyone had done anything like this, had any problems with it, or can think of any problems I might experience.
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>Jeff Cave
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>

The problems I see for something like that are more administrative than
techincal. Do you really want your clients to be able to see every
single little change as it happens? It sounds good at first, but IMO it
will cause more problems than it will fix. You're going to wind up with
a bunch of problem reports for things that you were working on at the
time they found the problem, wasting time all around.

AFAIK, the folder locking problem is a problem with IIS, and has nothing
to do with svn. I know it was a problem a while ago with IIS (v4?), but
it might be better in more recent versions of IIS.

-- 
Brian Mathis
http://directedge.com/b/
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