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RE: best production practice?
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Jim.Hyslop |
Subject: |
RE: best production practice? |
Date: |
Thu, 10 Feb 2005 12:23:34 -0500 |
bobby temper wrote:
> I also agree with Jim, but it might be hard to convince
> content people that
> they have to go throught a staging first, for simple stuff.
In my experience, it's usually the simple stuff that causes the most
headaches ;=)
> I'm wondering if
> it would be better to install a cvs client, and have the code
> being a "cvs
> checkout" copy. That way, we could do like you're proposing,
> with cvs diff.
> I'm actually just wondering if doing it that way has some
> drawbacks, vs
> doing a "cvs export/tar-gzip/scp" procedure.
The drawback would be having to administer another installation of a cvs
client. Not much overhead, I think.
One advantage - you can check in changes directly from any production
hot-fixes.
--
Jim Hyslop
Senior Software Designer
Leitch Technology International Inc. ( http://www.leitch.com )
Columnist, C/C++ Users Journal ( http://www.cuj.com/experts )