Re: [Monotone-devel] How the web server updates the pages...

[Ben Walton]

I do some auto web updates with on mtn project that I'm managing.  My
solution has been to have 'mtn serve' running on the web host as a
separate user, setup with it's own keys, etc.  Any time other project
members sync, it uses the note_netsync_end lua hook to run a script if
revisions were received.  This script does a merge and update locally,
followed by a make html (we're auto publishing some tex info stuff)
and then rsync to the live web staging error if all is well.  The
script errors out at anything with non-zero return status.

I'm handling the multiple heads issue thusly:
If the merge can be done automatically, proceed.
If the merge can't be done automatically (detected by a call to the
lua hook merge3), the script bails.
If the script bailed during merge, the addressess associated with the
conflicting heads are sent email (no need to bother everyone in our
case).
It is then expected that a human will do a manual merge and resync.

So far, this has been working well for us, but the project is small
and most of our merging can be done automatically.  It may not be
sufficient for larger projects where there is lots of merge3 type
activity.

Hope that helps.
-Ben

On 3/10/07, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just sw in the IRC log that some wonder how the web server updates
> from the monotone branch (nvm.web).  It's really very simple, I use
> the following scripts from the contrib/ directory:
>
>         monotone-mirror.sh (for mirroring the monotone repo and
>                             perform post-pull actions)
>
>         monotone-mirror-postaction-update.sh (for updating the web pages)
>         monotone-notify.pl (for sending email notifications)
>
> As you can see, monotone-mirror-postaction-update.sh does a simple
> 'mtn update', and as we all know, an update of the workspace will not
> happen past a fork in the history.  Therefore, it is crucial that the
> nvm.web branch doesn't stay multi-headed for too long.
>
> If anyone has a better suggestion, I'm all ears.
>
> Cheers,
> Richard
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