Re: using cvs on a multi-developer web project ,help?

[Paul Tomsic]

Thanks again, Noel.

Appreciate your thoughts.

This is my first role as a cvs-type admin, so I'm
slowly munging through just about every piece of
documentation that I can get a hold of.


Cheers,
Paul

--- Noel Yap <address@hidden> wrote:
> --- Paul Tomsic <address@hidden> wrote:
> > what's the ideal way to deploy CVS in a
> > web-development context using Apache/Tomcat.
> 
> I've already given my opinion on this so I won't
> elaborate more on it.
> 
> > How would a web-based implementation of CVS be
> > different than a software build type CVS
> > implementation?
> 
> IMHO, the difference is that developers need to
> install their product into a development environment
> (rather than using the built product straight out of
> the working directory).
> 
> > Noel adviced to not have a shared working
> directory
> > for different developers, but what if you simply
> > need
> > to change one minor thing on a JSP page, then save
> > it
> > and refresh the browser to see the change on a
> > development machine?   Would that entail a checkin
> > then a commit, thus forcing all other developers
> to
> > update their working directories?
> 
> As I said above, developers need to install into
> their
> environment to test out their changes.  If they
> checkin without testing, like in all other projects,
> they risk broken builds, bugs, ...
> 
> > Moreover, do all developers set up a working
> > directory
> > in their home directory, then a virtual server to
> > point to that location, and when they're done w/
> > their
> > "piece" of the site, do they commit it to the main
> > trunk?
> 
> Unless I'm missing something, yes.
> 
> > Should all developers get a "branch" ?
> 
> Since the task is more interesting than the
> developers
> who worked on it, I personally prefer task branches
> over developer branches.  Moreover, CVS doesn't
> handle
> seemlessly remerges onto the same branch as would
> happen with developer branches.
> 
> > Anyone have any experience deploying CVS for web
> > implementations?
> 
> I think the build and deploy process is independent
> of
> the source control system.
> 
> Noel
> 
> 
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