Re: Confused on transferring file from repository

[Rob Helmer]

On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 12:06:59PM -0800, Imraan wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> I'm little confused. I understand that you are not to access the
> repository directly and you are suppose to checkout to your local
> computer. However, suppose we complete a project and want to transfer
> the code to say a remote IIS server, from where do you transfer the
> file? The repository files have been modified by rcs to have v
> extension so they are not directly usable. So does that mean we must
> checkout the latest revisions to our local computers and then transfer
> them to our production servers remotely?
>  

Hi Imraan,


In a nutshell, yes. RCS files are the revision history for your project;
they belong on the CVS server, in backups, etc. *Never* on your webserver.

It sounds like you need some kind of "build&release" process, for software
anyway there is generally versions control, a build system, and some
kind of packaging/distribution system.

If you don't really need a "build" process, you can use CVS to help
you with the "release" part.. just do a "cvs export" of the module,
make an archive of it and install it on your remote webserver.

In many projects I've worked on, we've made an automated release/distribution
mechanism to update multiple servers, or just to maintain quality control
and reproducable install processes.



HTH,
Rob Helmer