This approach is good but it does not scale -
what if each developer has his own settings for the dev enviroment
then each will have to add his settings to this file
potentially creating lots of mess.
On 27/05/2009 12:59, Mark Rickerby wrote:
> It has nothing to do with branches (branches are separately forked
> versions of the entire codebase).
>
> You will need to make your own decision on a deployment strategy for
> config files...
>
> One method, which is compatible with keeping the same files through
> svn co / svn up is to have multiple environments in a single config
> file, eg:
>
> if (ENVIRONMENT == 'production') {
> // live database , settings, etc
> } elseif (ENVIRONMENT == 'dev') {
> // dev settings
> } ...
>
> Another method is to keep separate files for each environment in a
> support dir and svn ignore the application level config. To do this,
> you would need to upload your files via a script that copies the files
> for the correct environment into place.
>
> An example using Fabric (Python), which is my preferred tool for
> deploying PHP sites these days (assuming that a 'config.php' file was
> expected in the webroot, and this was ignored via svn):
>
> def deploy():
> run('cd /var/webroot/mysite; svn up; cp dev/config/live.config.php
> config.php')
>
> Essentially, this is no different to what Paul suggested, but for the
> fact that it is automated. I recommend automating these kinds of
> things as much as possible, because the extra time spent on setting it
> up at the beginning, is much greater amounts of time saved further
> down the track, and decreased stress levels.
>
> I also recommend using svn switch rather than svn up for any site that
> is updated frequently or has more traffic - if you need to reverse
> things, it's going to be a bit easier that way.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Mark
>
> >
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