Which leads me to ask...
Is there any good reason to go to the work of defining auto-properties to
ensure that things like .jar, .jpg, .gif, etc. are all tagged with the
appropriate mime/type?
I can't see any benefit to it for web-sites. As long as the repository is
properly seeing them as binary, I'm happy. But maybe I'm missing some
benefit.
- Gary
On 5/26/04 11:03 PM, "glists" <glists@greywether.com> wrote:
> I'm in the middle of getting Subversion setup for managing several large
> java-based web site. Here's how I'm tackling it:
>
> The repository is organized as such:
>
> Trunk
> dev
> lib
> src
> build.xml
> front-end
> home.jsp
> img
> etc.
> Branches
> beta
> production
> Tags
> <versions tags go here>
>
> ----
>
> The dev folder is used by the java programmers for the the back-end java
> stuff that needs compiling. The Ant build.xml file handles compiling and
> jar'ing.
>
> The front-end folder is for the html/graphics/jsp. This is generally
> checked out by a different set of folks who are using Dreamweaver on their
> local copies and doing commits when those local changes have been made.
>
> For a branching strategy we're using the "basically unstable" philosophy
> described in the Essential CVS book from O'Reilly. In this strategy the
> main "trunk" contains the latest (and possibly brittle) updates. You use
> things like branching and tagging to take snapshots (or evolve custom lines
> of development) from the repository for the beta and production releases.
>
> In some cases a simple "tag" of a particular trunk revision gets us a
> snapshot of the beta or prod release.
>
> In other cases there are things we don't want on the main trunk right away
> so we commit to the beta branch for those changes and then merge them back
> onto the trunk when the time comes.
>
> As noted in the manual, there's no inherent difference between a branch and
> a tag in Subversion, it's all just a linked-copy. The difference is in how
> you use the linked-copies (and, I supppose, your definitions of what
> constitutes a "branch" and/or a "tag").
>
> My understanding of the common-usage of the terms is that a "tag" is a
> snapshot of a particular revision on the trunk or one of the branches. A
> "branch" is a snapshot of a particular revision *plus* commits to only that
> specific branch (and not to the trunk).
>
> Anyway...
>
> For rollout (of either dev, beta or prod) we'll just grab the front-end
> folder and the .jar created from the Ant build in "dev" and move them onto
> the Tomcat server by hand, placing the jar (and the other java libs) inside
> the front-end/WEB-INF/lib folder.
>
> When I say "grab" I've been imagining I'd just check them out but as the
> previous poster pointed out, that gets you a bunch of .svn folders you may
> not want. But I believe there's a command (or a checkout option) that gets
> you the folders/files you want without the hidden Subversion directories.
> I'd guess we'll be using that.
>
> I have plans to automate all this (the checkout/merge/FTP to server) by
> further extending our Ant build script, perhaps building a WAR file or
> possibly just automating the FTP copy/merge.
>
> I'm still a little new to all this and am making some mistakes as I go so
> don't take the above as gospel. But it's where I'm at right now. Hope it
> helps.
>
> I'd love feedback if the above plan seems wrong-headed to anybody.
>
> - Gary
>
> On 5/26/04 5:27 PM, "Brendan van Drempt"
> <Brendan_vanDrempt@scholastic.com.au> wrote:
>
>> I am in the processing of setting up Subversion to manage the development of
>> a website.
>>
>> Setup:
>> Subversion Repository on Windows Server machine running SVNserve. Windows
>> development machines running TortoiseSVN client. (soon to add mac
>> development machines, when we decide on a suitable mac subversion client)
>>
>> * What is the best way to implement Subversion across my Dev / Test /
>> Production sites?
>>
>> * Should each environment be a 'working copy' of the repository, and then
>> use a client tool to update to particular revisions? (in addition to the
>> working copies of the developers)
>>
>> * Should I be using 'tags' to set releases?
>>
>> Need a bit of clarity here.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Brendan van Drempt
>> Analyst / Programmer
>> Email: brendan_vandrempt@scholastic.com.au
>>
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