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Re: Approach to a Website Staging/Production Environment

From: Tilmann Singer <tils_at_tils.net>
Date: 2006-02-14 20:16:32 CET

* Blair Zajac <blair@orcaware.com> [20060212 03:40]:
> I think you should actually use a production and staging branch. To
> help keep administrative burden down, use the svnmerge.py tool which
> is distributed with Subversion. This will automatically keep track
> of which revisions you've already merged over and which revisions are
> available to be merged. It's a great way of cherry-picking revisions.
>
> svnmerge.py keeps track of the already merged revisions in your
> branch by modifying the svnmerge-integrated property on the
> destination directory of the merge.

Thanks for the recommendation! It looks like with the svnmerge tool
the staging/production branches approach seems much more feasible.

> >The developers will have to use svn info to find out what version
> >their local checkout is at and edit the deploy_list files to tag their
> >changes as staging or production ready. I think that this will be less
> >tedious and less dangerous than dealing with branches. Experience will
> >show how it works out.
>
> This sounds much more tedious :)

Compared to svnmerge, yes ...

regards, Til

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