Re: Using subversion for web development

Robert Dailey wrote:
> Well reading it helped understand what I must do, but I do not have the
> know-how to write such a post-commit hook myself. This is a very common
> thing, it seems, so I'm sure someone else has already done the work. Is
> there a decent post-commit hook available for this already somewhere
> that I can use?

I wrote SVN::Notify::Mirror[1] and SVN::Notify::Config[2] specifically
to handle dynamic website development. Since you are running Linux, it
should be trivial to setup (it is a complete pain on Windows).

Specifically, I used a development model where:

1) All active development occurs on trunk which is synchronized
automatically to a development server (not publicly available);

2) The production site is automatically synchronized to the latest tag
which matches a pre-defined regular expression (e.g. RELEASE-\d+).

The developer only has to create a tag that matches the regex and the
production site switches to that tag (a very fast operation). No
developer access to the webserver itself is required; the post-commit
hook does it all.

HTH

John

1) http://search.cpan.org/search?query=SVN::Notify::Mirror
1) http://search.cpan.org/search?query=SVN::Notify::Config

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Received on 2008-08-20 04:13:26 CEST