How about a middle ground, where each approved revision gets two tags; say, as
v1.23 AND as "live". So the tag named as a version would be a true version
reference for posterity, and "live" would get deleted and created each time,
but the update would always come from the same URL?
Rob
Quoting Toby Johnson <toby@etjohnson.us>:
> Rob Brandt wrote:
>
>> The idea is for them to do
>> their work locally, commit changes to the dev server where it's
>> tested (simple
>> with Tortoise), and then the live server updated from trunk once
>> it's approved.
>
> I would recommend an extra step in there where a tag is created once
> the code is ready for approval. If you're updating the live website
> from the same trunk where development is done, it's very difficult to
> be sure that no additional changes are made between when you approve
> the code and when you update the live site. You must either halt all
> dev work during the review process, or you introduce a race condition
> when you perform the update, neither of which is desirable.
>
> Of course creating a new tag prior to each update might be overkill
> in your case, because you'd have to "switch" the live site's working
> copy to the new tag before updating it. In this case you may want to
> consider the notion of a "floating" tag, where the previous tag is
> deleted and a new one with the same name is created. This is a little
> different from convention but that's a great thing about Subversion
> is that conventions are *just* conventions and how you use it is up
> to you.
>
> Either way, whoever is reviewing the code checks it out (or browses
> it or diffs it or whatever) *from the tag*, and the update to the
> live site is made *from the tag*, and you don't have to worry about
> locking down trunk or dealing with the possibility of unreviewed code
> making it to your live site.
>
>
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