Now, I can see how the versioning would be helpful, but other than that, how would this extensive management system be beneficial to a solo developer? Or is it overkill?
Rick -----Original Message----- From: Eric Roberts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2007 11:53 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: SOT: How do you version control with your CF code? Summing it up... You have a repository that contains your current code. Both the development and live environments are "checked out" from the repository. When you complete changes to a page, you commit the page. You then update the live environment with the new code. Everyone who has checked out he code should, at the start of each day...and potentially several times throughout the day...run an update to pull current code from the repository to ensure they have the current version of the page they are working on. I generally do an update before I start working on a page. Now lets say you and I are working on the same page and we both commit the page. Subversion will detect this and notify that there is a conflict. It will then (depending on the setting and how the code conflicts) either merge the files automatically if there are no conflicts between the code...ie you changed line 5 and I changed line 20 and everything else is the same...or notify that last committer that there is a conflict and prompt you to manually do a diff and reconcile the code. SVN also handles branches and tags. As far as all these checkouts, commits, updates, etc... There are several tools that can be used. You can do this via a command-line interface. You can use a third party tool like TortoiseSVN (another open source and free tool that is awesome...it interfaces with windows and integrates into the drop down menus in explorer). The third option is via plugins with your IDE. Both Eclipse and Dreamweaver have plugins for SVN. Updates can also be achieved via automatic scripting. You can set up a script that automatically updates your live environment each time a file is committed to the repository (amongst many other automatic functions that can be set up with scripting). I would learn the repository and how t works and then once you have it set up the way you want, then worry about the automation. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion is delivering applications solutions at at top companies around the world in government. Find out how and where now http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/showcase/index.cfm?event=finder&productID=1522&loc=en_us Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290481 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
