Ok, since people seem to be ok with this topic of conversation (and I thank everyone who has participated!), here's one more.

Something I do frequently is push small changes from a dev site to a live site. In CVS I do this by tagging the files in the dev site I want to move over with "stable", then going over to the live site (which was originally created by checking out on the "stable" tag) and doing a "cvs update". Voila.

I asked on the Subversion list how this same action would be accomplished, since they don't have tags in the CVS sense. I received several replies, which boiled down to this: create a tag, which is really just a 'cheap copy' of the current state of the repository, called /tags/stable (the /tags directory is optional, but is a convention they recommend). Then each time I want to move something to stable I would remove and recreate the stable copy, then update the live site from it.

Although this would work, it isn't nearly as flexible as what I do today with CVS. Because tags are applied on a per-file basis, I can be committing work as I go along without fear of it showing up in the live site; that won't happen until I explicitly tag it. In the Subversion universe it appears that anything committed is going to be going over the wall.

This has to be a common problem - how do the rest of you handle these things?

Thanks once again,

janine

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