Re: [Fab-user] Any interest in extension to support getting things from source control?

[Simon Smith]

Yes, I'd be interested in pulling things from source control, and
here's the use case:

Right now, I make a temporary directory, pull the files or directories
out of subversion into that temporary directory, rsync them over to my
target (using fabric's rsync support) and cleanup when I'm done.

Even if you don't put anything into fabric that is
source-control-system specific, having some support for the underlying
or surrounding little jobs (the temporary directory, making sure that
the stuff is cleaned up properly, etc.) would be very useful for me.
I mean, I can certainly write these methods, but I'm sure that someone
else could do them even better, with better error handling, etc.

Anyhow, source-control support (not managing the whole source-code
repository, just pulling stuff from it) seems like a good thing to
have in contrib.

Simon

> While it's not that hard to just run the commands for source control
> systems from within a fabfile, is there any interest in having some
> actual support for pulling files from source control?