On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 3:32 PM, rene7705 <rene7...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 5:13 AM, tamouse mailing lists > <tamouse.li...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 5:23 AM, rene7705 <rene7...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 11:47 AM, rene7705 <rene7...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> >> I can't use anything like git on my shared hoster. But I suppose I >> >> could >> >> use something like git at home, and use a sync script like I posted in >> >> my >> >> OP on the shared hoster. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > Maybe you git gurus can help me along a bit further. >> > >> > I've managed to install msysgit and get it to work on my windows dev >> > box, >> > so far so good. >> > >> > Now, I'm wondering how to set up my repositories. The last cvs I used >> > was >> > Microsoft's visual source control back in the 90's, so I'm very rusty. >> > At >> > the same time, I'd prefer not to experiment too much.. >> > >> > I've got a tree structure in a folder called simply "code", that I have >> > in >> > several locations on my windows box. >> > >> > Each site that I develop for has a folder in >> > .../htdocs/sites/somedomain.com, >> > and many of these sites will need a copy of the common "code" folder in >> > them. I can restrict myself to developing in one domain's subdir only. >> > The non-common code for each domain is designed to run from any >> > $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] and any sub-directory it happens to be in. In >> > other >> > words, http://my-dev-box.biz/sites/somedomain.com/ will show the same >> > thing >> > from windowze as http://somedomain.com will from shared hosted linux. >> > >> > I would also like to version control the non-common code for each >> > domain. >> > >> > And I would like to store the entire repository on my windows box at >> > home >> > in 2 or 3 specific locations (on seperate disks encrypted with >> > truecrypt.org, >> > and also a truecrypted usb disk, if and when that's plugged in). >> > >> > For distributing the common code to the shared hosted live server (my >> > workflow is to check finalized changes on my win box against all my >> > sites >> > that used the common code base, before deploying to the shared hoster >> > live >> > server), I can simply FTP one finalized copy and use the simplest of rm >> > -rf >> > and cp -r commands in a short script to distribute the changes. I could >> > even do without the PHP filesync code I posted earlier (altho it was fun >> > to >> > build! :) >> > >> > That darn hoster of mine won't support git on shared hosting, only on >> > much >> > more expensive virtual dedicated and dedicated plans :( >> > But I've also found >> > >> > http://serverfault.com/questions/26836/setting-up-a-git-repo-on-my-godaddy-hosting-plan >> > and >> > >> > http://www.lyraphase.com/wp/uncategorized/how-to-build-git-for-a-host-with-no-compiler/ >> > that >> > show me how I might get git running on my (kinda lame now) shared >> > hosting >> > account. >> > >> > Maybe a stupid question, but would perhaps copying the common code >> > around >> > with a simple script be faster than multiple pushes by git? >> >> >> Using git, you can set up either publicly hosted repositories on >> github.com or gitorious.org or perhaps other public repo places. If >> you don't want you code to be publicly available, you can set up >> private repositories as well. >> >> Not being familiar with Windows implementations much at all, I can't >> tell you specifically what to do with msysgit, so these will be more >> generic instructions. >> >> I'm going to assume you don't have a host somewhere with ssh access. >> In this case you'll most likely want/need to set up your repository on >> your local system. (Note that it isn't *strictly* necessary to have a >> repository -- you can clone a new tree from the existing code tree, >> however having a repository can ensure a clean code set in case your >> working tree gets out of sync somehow.) >> >> (These instructions are modified from >> >> http://tumblr.intranation.com/post/766290565/how-set-up-your-own-private-git-server-linux >> ) >> >> First, create a directory you want to hold all of your local >> repositories (such as C:\User\rene\MyRepositories). Then create a >> subdirectory off that to hold your server/application common code >> (C:\Users\rene\MyRepositories\commoncode). >> >> Make that directory (..\commoncode) a *bare* repository. (Not sure how >> that's done with msysgit, but the basic git command is: "git init >> --bare C:\Users\rene\MyRepositories\commoncode") >> >> Then you add the repository as a remote to the working tree: git >> remote add origin C:\Users\rene\MyRepositories\commoncode >> >> Now you can push commits to your repository with the following sequence: >> >> git add <files you want to commit> >> git commit >> git push origin master >> >> Now, to *deploy*, you can do the following: >> >> Somewhere outside your working tree, create a directory called "deploy": >> >> mkdir C:\Users\rene\deploy >> >> Then clone your the repository of your commond code: >> >> git clone C:\Users\rene\MyRepositories\commoncode cleancode-20120404 >> >> Then you can ftp the contents of cleancode-20120404 to your server as >> needed. >> >> Sorry to be unable to tell you the exact steps with msysgit, but I >> hope you can interpolate from the commands above. > > > Thanks for that useful info, tamouse.. > > I didn't check this list for a few days thinking the thread had gone dead, > but I did manage to figure git on windows out. > > I do need a bare repo for my common code, which I've put on a crypted disk > somewhere. > The command on msysgit is btw the same as a linux git command.. > > In each .../htdocs/sites/someDomain.com, under which I have the common code > in the folder "code", I have a file called .gitignore, which contains; > > /cache > /code > *~ > > this ensures that my cache and common code folders, plus vim backup files, > are not put into the domain repo ("git init" in each > /sites/someDomain.com/). > > then, to ease cloning and pushing of the common code, I have 2 .bat scripts > in my %PATH%; > > code-c.bat: (fetch from master bare repo) (only to be executed in > .../sites/someDomain.com) > echo Y | rmdir /s code > git clone X:\path\to\myCommonCode.git HEAD > > code-p.bat: (push local changes back into master bare repo) (only to be > executed in .../sites/someDomain.com/code) > git push X:\path\to\myCommonCode.git HEAD > > to initialize the master bare repo X:\path\to\myCommonCode.git with my code, > I enter the latest code dir; .../htdocs/sites/someSite.com/code, and do the > following there; > > git init > git add . > git commit -m "Initial commit" > code-p > > Now, if I understand it correctly, I can backup all the relevant directories > and (hopefuly safely?!) backup the git repos all with simple xcopy /s > commands (cp -r on linux). > So that's what I'm doing now, I have a batch script to copy everything with > xcopy to another permanently attached large crypted usb drive in > .../backups/[date-time] category/, and another batch script like it to do > the same to a crypted usb drive (against breakins and such). >
one final gotcha; if you want to backup the git repositories, you have to use xcopy /s /h source destination. it needs that /h to copy .git directories that are hidden by default. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
