Re: [Fab-user] Blog post on deploying applications with Fabric

[Nick Sergeant]

On Nov 7, 2008, at 12:06 PM, Jeff Forcier wrote:

> > I should note that I
> > pulled 0.0.9 from the Git repository - which is apparently why I  
> > must use
> > config.fab_hosts.
>
> After you did the initial 'git clone', did you explicitly change to
> the 0.0.9 tag, or did you leave it on the 'master' branch? The Git
> repository's master branch is *not* currently equivalent to the 0.0.9
> release (using master is like tracking trunk on an SVN repo) as many
> changes have been made, such as the config.* method versus
> set()/get().

Nope - I simply did the git clone - I don't really know a whole lot  
about how git works.

Should I rebuild fab via PyPy or is there a way to switch to the 0.0.9  
'tag' per se with git?

> So, depending on how you want to be using Fabric, you should either
> make sure you've downloaded the 0.0.9 release from e.g.
> easy_install/PyPI, or keep tracking the Git repo but refer to it as
> 'master' or 'the Git repo' or similar, instead of using a version
> number :)

Ah, gotcha.

> It'd be great if you could update your blog entry once you've figured
> out exactly what version of the code you're on / would like to be on
> -- that way any new folks reading it won't get confused.

Sure thing - I'll make a note that the configuration is specific to  
the git master branch.

> As Christian said, though, overall it was a great entry -- many thanks
> for writing it!!

Great, glad you liked it!

> Regards,
> Jeff


Nick