>> Right now I'm trying to decide whether or not I should use subversion.
>> Hopefully there is a less time-consuming method for making that
>> determination.
>>
>> My goals are to implement a good development framework and to define a
>> (changing) list of files which are the only files a developer is
>> allowed to either read or write. If I can do that with subversion and
>> path-based authorization, I'd like to get an idea of the workflow
>> involved. Here is a modified version of my proposed workflow.
>> Hopefully it is more intelligent than my last attempt:
>>
>> 1. I install a subversion server on my dev machine.
>> 2. I decide which file or files I want my dev to work on and give him
>> read/write access to only those files (and neither read nor write
>> access to any other files) via path-based authorization on the
>> subversion server.
>> 3. The dev uses a subversion client over an encrypted connection to
>> edit the permissible files. He can test his changes via http on the
>> dev machine.
>> 4. Once he is done, I test his changes via http on the dev machine and
>> use svn log to look at the specific changes he made.
>> 5. I use rsync to copy the changes made to the dev machine's files to
>> the production machine.
>> 6. Steps 2-5 are repeated.
>>
>> Is this any better?
>
> No, forget the part about copying/duplicating the subversion
> respository. If you are going to use subversion at all, you should
> have one authoritative copy of the repository/server. You can make
> the developer work on a branch within the repository and you can
> either switch the server to a checked out copy of the branch or you
> can merge the approved changes back to the trunk. But any way you
> approach it, if you don't want a single repository holding all work,
> you probably don't want to use subversion.
My workflow above only describes a single repository on the dev
machine, the production machine wouldn't have a repository. rsync
would synchronize the source files, not the repository.
- Grant
Received on 2011-10-01 07:47:19 CEST