Re: Website upload

[Urs Liska]

Am 07.03.2017 um 11:45 schrieb David Kastrup:
> Urs Liska <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Am 07.03.2017 um 11:24 schrieb Phil Holmes:
>>
>>> Again - this needs answering with a bit of care, because the website
>>> and the docs are closely linked.  It appears to me that putting any of
>>> the documentation (which includes part of the webite) is doen with
>>> rsync without the delete option.  See
>>> https://github.com/gperciva/gub/blob/master/test-lily/upload.py line 175. 
>> OK, there's some general discussion in here.
>>
>> Basically I think such an upload should definitely include the
>> --delete option because we don't want an arbitrary number of orphaned
>> files on the server, isn't it?
> We don't want orphaned files, no, but one better make a complete backup
> first because not all files might be orphaned copies but may have been
> added on the server only for some purpose.  Symlinks, referal files,
> permission/login files and similar stuff.

OK, that makes sense.
But how would we find out about such items? I don't think it's a very
clean strategy to make a backup, then remove them and deal with any bug
report about missing files ...

Urs