Brian... A statement like this means you are not very good at your job.
There is no way to automatically merge changes, I mean even SVN can't do that between developers and its a manual process to update and merge changes. Brian, if you have been developing and using SVN heavily and making minor changes to websites as explained there is no way in hell I would employ you if you told me what you said below. As much as I am one who looks to reduce work load, file sync is and will always be a manual process when it comes to migrating small changes. Brian, you really should read your message again and seriously think about what you said. -- Senior Coldfusion Developer Aegeon Pty. Ltd. www.aegeon.com.au Phone: +613 9015 8628 Mobile: 0404 998 273 -----Original Message----- From: Brian Kotek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 12 August 2008 12:01 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: SVN in Production I disagree completely. There's absolutely nothing wrong with using SVN in production for deployment. Beyond Compare? It's a great program...but using it to deploy code? The idea makes me shudder. In fact, doing anything manual related to code deployment makes me shudder. There are easy ways around the issue you bring up about size: it's called an SVN Export. It's meant to do EXACTLY what you're talking about: create a copy of the source code with no SVN-related files. All of this can (and should) be automated with ANT. That means at the click of my mouse I can execute the entire deployment process in exactly the same way every single time. That might mean: - Zip the current code, timestamp it, and copy it to a back folder for easy retrieval. - Delete the current code - Copy a site maintenance file into the site folder - Pull latest from SVN - Perform export to site folder - Run a reinit HTTP request to reload the application - Send an email to notify stakeholders of success You can also have it run unit tests and only deploy if all tests pass. The bottom line is that using SVN and ANT to help you deploy code is EXACTLY what these tools were meant to do. If I have to do anything more than click my mouse once to execute an entire deployment process, I'm doing something wrong. On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 4:20 AM, Andrew Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > SVN SHOULD NEVER BE USED IN PRODUCTION... > > SVN is used to have a revision control system, so that you could roll back > to a previous version or whatever you need to do. > > When it comes to production, why the hell would you install 99% of extra > space taking codes and indexes to a production server? Over a period of > time, your code might be 1meg in size, but after a year the SVN indexes > could result in 2gig and more of space that is no longer needed. But then > if > one read the docs to these tools, one would not use SVN in production. > > SVN can be expensive when it comes to hard drive space, and one should > never > and I will repeat this again. > > NEVER USE SVN in production. > > Use a program like beyond compare to syn file changes or something, but > NEVER USE SVN in production. > > I am shocked to find people don't research their tools enough. > > So let me recap, DO NOT USE SVN IN PRODUCTION. If you do then your a damn > fool, and should be shot on sight. > > > > -- > Senior Coldfusion Developer > Aegeon Pty. Ltd. > www.aegeon.com.au > Phone: +613 9015 8628 > Mobile: 0404 998 273 > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kym Kovan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, 11 August 2008 11:07 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: SVN in Production > > Hello, > > Looking at some of the responses in the recent thread on SVN v ftp I get > an impression that some folk are using SVN clients on Production boxes. > What are people's thoughts on this? Is it a security risk, is it > dangerous in some other way, or is it a "bad thing" because of all of > those extra files that cause havoc with backups? > > -- > > Yours, > > Kym Kovan > mbcomms > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:310793 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
