Jason Purdy wrote: > What is a good scheme of automating synchronization between a CVS repository > and a Web site (or does a repository have to be separated from the Web site > files [besides renaming the files from the ",v" suffix])?
Renaming files won't work. And yes, repository must be separated from Web contents > A co-worker & I > have recently decided to work with CVS on our ever-growing Web site, and I've > got CVS up & going, but lack an important piece of the puzzle - getting data > out of the repository and into the Web site (hopefully in an automated > fashion). > > I have a couple of ideas, but before I go down a road that's surely been > traversed before, I'd love to get some input from the more travelled on the > list. I hope there's already a solution for this scenario, though I couldn't > find anything on the cvshome.org Web site or in a Google search. > > Thanks, > > Jason > > PS: Here are some of my ideas: > > 1) Create a Perl script/Cron job (run every 15 minutes) which would basically > 'cvs history -a -c -D "15 minutes ago"', parse that and affect the Web site > directories accordingly. > > 2) Create 'trigger' scripts which would be triggered when the developer > 'commit'ed their changes, which would also affect the changes on the Web site > directories. I prefer a trigger. We maintain our Web site using CVS. Web site contents is owned by user web. So, for first time I login as web, go to DocumentRoot of site and run cvs -d $MYCVSROOT checkout. Later it's content will be cvs update'd by trigger. I use CVSROOT/loginfo to assign triggers to several parts of site. Example line in loginfo: links /usr/local/adm/update.links When 'links' directory is updated in CVS, noted script is started. Example contents of script: #!/bin/sh ( export TMPDIR=/var/tmp cd /my/doc/root/links sleep 1 # wait for lock to be released sudo -u web /usr/bin/cvs update -P -d 2>&1 ) & It's simple example and it can be impoved, of course. I give my co-developers right to execute /usr/bin/cvs update -P -d as user web via sudo. Eugene Grosbein _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
