On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Anthony Papillion <papill...@gmail.com> wrote: > So I’m a bit curious and perhaps I’m missing the point here (probably am) > but why go through all this hassle? Why not just do a straight FTP of the > files from the staging machine to the deployment machine? Does using > checkin/check out benefit us in some way besides the original file integrity > and management? >
FTP (uh, SFTP) forces you to upload the entire codebase or pick-and-choose the files that changed. svn up just gets the changes. Source control also gives you a quick and easy rollback when you realize that one of the new files just borked your production site. _______________________________________________ New York PHP Users Group Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk http://www.nyphp.org/Show-Participation
