Version control (svn) for websites
Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2009 9:31 am
I do a lot of offline (stand-alone apps) as well as online development. For offline development, I always use Subversion (SVN) for version control. Works perfectly.
Now, I'm looking for something similar for online / website development. Until now, I always had a local copy of all my files, everything in an svn repository, and I uploaded the files (excluding the .svn dirs) to the online server. This is a somewhat tedious procedure, and doesn't really seem to fit with an optimal workflow.
Perhaps it'd work better if I had SVN running on the server. However, this makes the server software dependent (it should have SVN) which makes moving to a different server one stepp less easy, and I don't want the version control metafiles (the .svn dirs) in the live environment.
How do you guys 'n gals deal with this?
Now, I'm looking for something similar for online / website development. Until now, I always had a local copy of all my files, everything in an svn repository, and I uploaded the files (excluding the .svn dirs) to the online server. This is a somewhat tedious procedure, and doesn't really seem to fit with an optimal workflow.
Perhaps it'd work better if I had SVN running on the server. However, this makes the server software dependent (it should have SVN) which makes moving to a different server one stepp less easy, and I don't want the version control metafiles (the .svn dirs) in the live environment.
How do you guys 'n gals deal with this?