[Cialug] CVS for web projects

[Dave Weis]

On Wed, 23 Aug 2006, Bryan Baker wrote:
> Maybe I'm nuts, but wouldn't it make more sense to make the live update use a 
> CVS checkout from a CVS server on the dev side?
> iirc (it's been a while since I've really used CVS heavily) it does a similar 
> thing to rsync when it does a checkout.
> That would require that you can initiate the update from the live server 
> though.
> Maybe I just don't understand where you are going with this.

Yes and no. A lot of the work is either graphics, web uploaded content, 
and HTML. Only a small percentage is done by people at a prompt. I had 
thought about going this direction initially but need to take small steps.

> On Aug 23, 2006, at 9:21 AM, Dave Weis wrote:
>> I have a client that wants to use version control to keep a copy of their 
>> site every time it's rsync'ed out to the live servers. I have it figured 
>> out except for adding new files automatically to the repository. I don't 
>> want a manual process to add files because it won't happen consistently and 
>> there may be a lot of them added at any time.
>> 
>> Any good ideas? I was hoping not to have to parse the CVS output of the 
>> commit and look for ? and add them separately.
>> 
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