There was a FAQU that was full of SVN resources on doing workflow management etc, I would suggest tracking it down.
Mark On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Toby Tremayne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Matthew, > > there were some posts about this a few weeks back in which I detailed > the process we used - search the google groups for it and you should > find a stack of answers. Feel free to drop me a line if you need any > help. > > Toby > > On 26/09/2008, at 9:25 AM, Matthew wrote: > >> >> Hi everyone, >> >> Setup: Windows environment, IIS, CF7, Eclipse >> >> I'm looking to apply version control to a website I'm working on and >> would appreciate any recommendations on how best to set everything up >> in regards to version control + CF coding. >> >> If you can't be bothered to ready the long winded post below than a >> snapshot of your version control + CF dev setup would be helpful e.g. >> when do you tag, branch etc and how do you get versions live to >> production? >> >> Question: I've install Subversion etc and am at the point where I've >> got a repository setup on a shared server with a fresh copy of the >> website code "as of today" in the trunk and I've tagged it as version >> 1.0. I've then checked it out (should I checkout the tag or the trunk >> by the way?) and all works perfectly ready to start / edit code. >> However I'm looking for advice on when to branch / tag? The added >> complication is that I'm often working on multiple projects involving >> this one website (e.g. whilst waiting for QA testing on one project or >> waiting on resources etc) so how do you tackle this? >> >> Perhaps some examples will help: >> One of my current tasks is to migrate the website from MySql to Sql >> Server. All the database work has been done so all I need to do now is >> modify several queries throughout the website. In this instance would >> you create a branch (v1.0.1) from the tag (v1.0) and checkout this new >> branch? I've tried this and checkout out branch 1.0.1 into a new >> Eclipse project but this of course has created a new directory and >> therefore my development environment doesn't point at this project >> folder. So would you reconfigure CF, IIS etc to all point to this new >> folder whilst working on this branch? >> Lets say in a few days time this branch is ready to go and is with the >> QA department and I want to crack on with another project for this >> website so would I create branch v1.0.2 and check this out into >> another Eclipse project and therefore have to reconfigure all my dev >> environment settings? Lets say v1.0.2 is approved before v1.0.1 so >> would you pust v1.0.2 live to production server and the merge v1.0.1 >> and v1.0.2 into v1.0.3 in order to get v1.0.1 changes live? >> >> Perhaps this example of working on 2 or more projects is a little >> unusual so lets try a more common scenario: lets say you've got a team >> of 3 developers. Each developer is assigned a project so would you >> create 3 branches (one for each)? They go off and program away >> (checking in their code to the trunk each night) and the first one >> comes back and is finished. So you test etc and then are ready to live >> so would you tag his branched version as v1.0.1 at this point? Then >> developer 2 finishes so you test etc and are ready to go live so would >> you checkout the tagged version v1.0.1, merge in his branch, test >> again and than tag the combined version as v1.0.2? >> >> A few other questions; >> - I assume that the Repo administrator would be in charge of creating >> branches / tags etc? The developers are just told the name of the >> branch that they should checkout and instruct them to checkin their >> changes to the trunk each night? >> - How do you get a stable version (or "tagged" version) live to the >> production server?!?!? Do you simple checkout a tagged version and >> then FTP it up to the production server? >> >> Cheers >> Matthew >> > > > ----------------------------------- > > Life is poetry, write it in your own words > > ----------------------------------- > > Toby Tremayne > CEO > Code Poet and Zen Master of the Heavy Sleep > Magic Industries > 0416 048 090 > ICQ: 13107913 > Skype: lyricist1 > > > > > -- E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] W: www.compoundtheory.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to cfaussie@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
