Thanks, that clears it up. On Aug 3, 8:34 am, Lee Hambley <[email protected]> wrote: > The branch is only used internally to ensure a clean working directory, from > which to copy the release files. It's not another "branch" that you have to > maintain, and it's never pushed back to the source control. Also with git, > having a new branch costs 1 inode and about 3b of disk space… so it > shouldn't matter. > > Having reviewed the article very briefly, I can say that his point revolves > around not maintaining different branches, and you won't have to. The > Capistrano branches, as I said exist only to ensure a clean copy of the code > is available on the disk to be copied into the release directory. A bigger > topic is the release directories themselves, they can really build up, but > there's a task to clean them up. > > - Lee > > On 3 August 2011 14:17, Zeedy <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I'm trying to follow the strategy outlined by Eric Sink in his book on > > distributed source control: > >http://www.ericsink.com/vcbe/html/web_development.html > > > Basically, a web application need only ever deploy from the same > > release branch, i.e. we don't need to create a new branch for every > > deployment. > > > On Aug 2, 5:01 pm, Lee Hambley <[email protected]> wrote: > > > What problem are you trying to solve by not checking out the branch? Cap > > > does this to ensure some measure of cleanliness, and make sure that your > > > deploys are always atomic. > > > -- > > * You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Capistrano" group. > > * To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > * To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected] For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/capistrano?hl=en > >
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