FWD: Announce: Cvs-Brancher 1.00

[Eric Siegerman]

This came across another list I'm on, but it's clearly relevent
to CVS :-) Some people might find it useful.  I haven't tried it
myself; it just looks intriguing.  Here's a link to the
"overview" file from its documentation:

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/tgen/Cvs-Brancher/doc/OVERVIEW?rev=1.3&view=auto


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> Subject: [Templates] Announce: Cvs-Brancher 1.00
> From: Bryce Harrington <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 10:56:09 -0700 (PDT)
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> Static websites have a number of advantages over dynamically built
> sites, but one of the disadvantages is being able to schedule deployment
> of new content at arbitrary times.
> 
> Cvs-Brancher is designed to address this issue by making it
> straightforward to branch a CVS tree and schedule a merge and rebuild
> using 'at'.
> 
>     http://freshmeat.net/projects/cvsbrancher/
> 
> An example for use of this is for posting press releases and other
> assorted website changes at 5am west coast time, to co-incide with start
> of business east coast time.  This was the primary motivation for
> writing it.
> 
> The advantage of doing a branch/merge is that regular maintenance can go
> on while the scheduled release is assembled and tested.  Cvs-Brancher
> provides options to control what actions it should take in case of merge
> errors.
> 
> While intended for CVS-based websites that use a build tool such as
> ttree, it is implemented generically and may have non-web uses, such as
> deploying cfengine-based system config changes, etc.
> 
> Bryce
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