J W wrote: > 1. Local Development with local code to those machines. How do you keep > those machines current? Many of the coldfusion programs we code and make > improvements to are part of a huge enterprise system that would only test > locally correctly with the other parts of the system present. Say you have 5 > developers, 1 developers works on something, how do the others get HIS > changes to their LOCAL code so they are working on something or do those 5 > developers only work on the code they need?
The other developers will occasionally run an svn update on their working copy which will update their working copy to the last version that was committed to SVN. Conflicting changes will be labelled, non conflicting changes will be merged. > 2 How are things "Checked out" and copied to the local system for > development and then checked back in and copied back to the dev server or > SVN repository? Through the SVN checkout and commit commands. > 3. Would I be best served by reading the SVN manual cover to cover and the > above questions would be self explanatory?? Yes. > Most docs I have read deal more > with compilation and build numbers than the way COLDFUSION or say PHP works, Compilation is not relevant for your version control software. I would suggest to take a good look at the best practices for build numbers, you can quite easily apply them to CF and PHP too. > 4. Once I get the terminology down for just the developing part. I will > worry about ANT and scripts to populate production systems, or do I need to > worry about that now as well? It is completely optional (but highly recommended). Jochem ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade to ColdFusion 8 and integrate with Adobe Flex http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJP Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290473 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
