On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Wes Winham <[email protected]> wrote:
> For my particular case, I started out using a bzr lightweight check
> and bzr up to do those updates, just as you would expect. There were a
> few issues that eventually convinced me that was not the best for my
> case:
>
> <snippity-snip>
>
> I hope that makes sense.
> -Wes

Yea, that made sense, and it sounds like you're definitely hitting a
bunch of the scenarios I alluded to :)

-Jeff

> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Jeff Forcier <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Wes Winham <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> I'm super excited about how much rsync is going to speed up my
>>> deployment process when I'm just applying small changes. Thanks for
>>> the awesome work.
>>
>> Call me silly, but isn't this what version control is for? Maintain a
>> checkout of your release branch (or a release tag) and then just do
>> e.g. "svn up" (or "svn switch") during your deploy process.
>>
>> I'm sure there are plenty of scenarios where that doesn't work, but
>> for the common case it seems to be widespread enough to be considered
>> best practices *shrug*
>>
>> At any rate, I'm definitely all for adding flexibility to the builtin
>> tools like rsync_project -- so don't think I'm poo-pooing that! --
>> just curious what it may offer over what I'm personally used to.
>>
>> Best,
>> Jeff
>>
>> P.S. Still cranking away on magic-removal, been relatively busy lately
>> but hoping to get back on it full-steam soon!
>>
>


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