Re: CVS-Directories disappear when uploading per SFTP-Client

[Arno Schuring]

> The problem is the following:
> the cvs server is at the same time the web server where the application
> runs. So I have to checkout to the web server. But: My IDE runs locally on
> my machine and it needs the complete source code to enable it to use code
> completion etc. Between my local machine and the server there is only a 
> DSL
> connection so I have the local changes mirrored to the web server (using 
> the
> SFTP client) and then do the commit from the web server.
> Any better ideas?

Let CVS mirror the changes to the webserver. CVS is perfectly capable of 
handling multiple copies itself. There are some options you can consider:

- Since you have stfp access, I'm assuming you have ssh shell access as 
well. Go into your webserver's content directory and do a cvs checkout 
there. Each time you want to update the site, simply perform a cvs update on 
the webserver. Maybe change the settings of your webserver to ignore/hide 
the CVS/ directories (apache: modify the .htaccess file)

- This can be automated (but DON'T do that on your production site, since 
every mistake that gets committed to the repository will immediately be seen 
on the web), see 
https://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs-1.11.20/cvs_18.html#SEC177 (keeping 
a checked out copy)

- If somehow your sftp program/filesystem/ghost in the machine insists on 
removing the CVS/ directories when you upload, try uploading from another 
sandbox (so basically you will have two sandboxes on your local pc: one for 
'work' and one for 'upload'). The 'upload' copy can be created with cvs 
export, if you want.


Arno


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