Re: Can CVS repo updates synchronize web server files?

[Todd Denniston]

address@hidden wrote:
> 
> OK, this is good. However there is another part. What if we had a
> staging website that we updated before moving to the live site? I
> wanted to figure out a way to be able to experiment with the staging
> site before committing to the live site. How is this done? Thanks, BEA

seeing as the manual [1] is only having you do an update, you could put the
live site on a branch and development on the trunk [2] and when you are
happy with the staging results merge the branch versions to the trunk (look
in this email list's archive for a lot of tagging and planning you should
do).  If you do a normal checkout on the staging site and a checkout of the
branch on the live site then the updates will keep them that way.


[1] http://ximbiot.com/cvs/manual/cvs-1.11.20/cvs_18.html#SEC177
[2] look at branch tags, and you could have it the other way around if you
wanted.
http://ximbiot.com/cvs/manual/cvs-1.11.20/cvs_5.html#SEC54
also see
http://www.cmcrossroads.com/bradapp/acme/branching/
-- 
Todd Denniston
Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane) 
Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter