Concerning Re: How do I obtain a list of modif
John Peacock wrote on 24 Jun 2008, 12:14, at least in part:
> > A downside of all this automating however is that at times for
> > logical or other reason a change may be committed in a number of
> > consecutive commits, with the website not really being presentable
> > until the final commit. No automated updating of the live server
> > working copy could take care of this while it can be easily
> > forgotten to be turned off in time. Or turned on again ...
>
> That's actually not a problem. When I deployed this at my previous
> company, I kept a test server in sync with trunk. The only time the
> production server was updated is when a tag (matching a specific
> regular expression) was created. That way you can confirm that the
> production site is only updated at well defined locations. It also
> means you can roll back to any previous tag (which should all be
> stable) at any time.
>
> The neat thing about using a tool like this is that the web developers
> don't even need login access to the production server; the mere act of
> creating the tag does the right thing...
I guess it depends. Tags are ok if the layout is separate from the
content (and I don't mean HTML-CSS-JS separation here), but I
wouldn't like making tags every time a new content page is added
or another one modified. E.g. for historical reasons we don't have
our content in a database separated from the web templates etc.,
but that has some advantages of its own as well.
Jan Hendrik
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