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  • Sandman

    Versioning system for web development

    Hello - I suppose this group could be suitable for my questions...

    I am interested in a versioning system that works good for web authoring. I
    don't know what differences web development might pose oon a versioning system,
    but I have a feeling that it might.

    First off - I already have a web project up and running with over 160 000 lines
    of code. It is spread over a large hierarchy that mixes PHP documents with
    images. The hierachy also contains files that are updated live by the web
    server. I suppose I could seperate these succcessfully, to keep the PHP files
    seperate from the rest...

    But what kind of system is suitable, where I can handle different users having
    access to different parts of the project?

    Most importantly, these files and folders are constantly renamed and moved
    around in the hierarchy along with the project growing in size. It need to be
    able to handle those kind of things.

    I am a Mac user, and my development environment of choice is BBEdit, which has
    built in support for CVS (which doesn't seem to be to the task above) and
    Perforce, which is a commercial system. Perforce is quite expensive, but I
    suppose I could afford it if it did the above good.

    I've looked at subversion as well, but I don't know how to determine if it's
    suitable.


    Anyone here using a versioning system for their web project and want to share
    pros and cons?

    --
    Sandman[.net]
  • wald

    #2
    Re: Versioning system for web development

    Sandman <mr@sandman.net > wrote:
    [color=blue]
    > I've looked at subversion as well, but I don't know how to
    > determine if it's suitable.[/color]

    I'd recommend Subversion, since it tracks renames and moves quite
    well. It has got hook support, enabling you to auto-update the
    website as soon as commits are made. You could even set up your
    webserver to watch those live-updated files you talk about, and
    commit them to the Subversion server as soon as they change.

    I think you can find out what you need to know about Subversion over
    here:



    It is *the* reference manual for Subversion.

    Regards,
    Wald

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    • Sandman

      #3
      Re: Versioning system for web development

      In article <Xns95E8A34CF8E 24arnoutstandae rtnospa@134.58. 127.12>,
      wald <arnout.standae rt@n*o_s-p%a|m.cit.kuleu ven.ac.be> wrote:
      [color=blue]
      > Sandman <mr@sandman.net > wrote:
      >[color=green]
      > > I've looked at subversion as well, but I don't know how to
      > > determine if it's suitable.[/color]
      >
      > I'd recommend Subversion, since it tracks renames and moves quite
      > well. It has got hook support, enabling you to auto-update the
      > website as soon as commits are made. You could even set up your
      > webserver to watch those live-updated files you talk about, and
      > commit them to the Subversion server as soon as they change.
      >
      > I think you can find out what you need to know about Subversion over
      > here:
      >
      > http://svnbook.red-bean.com/
      >
      > It is *the* reference manual for Subversion.[/color]

      Thanks, I'll look it up!

      --
      Sandman[.net]

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      • Jacob Atzen

        #4
        Re: Versioning system for web development

        On 2005-01-24, wald <arnout.standae rt@n*o_s-p%a|m.cit.kuleu ven.ac.be> wrote:[color=blue]
        > Sandman <mr@sandman.net > wrote:
        >[color=green]
        >> I've looked at subversion as well, but I don't know how to
        >> determine if it's suitable.[/color]
        >
        > I'd recommend Subversion, since it tracks renames and moves quite
        > well.[/color]

        I'll just second that in case anyone cares ;)

        I have no experience with commercial VC systems, but compared to CVS
        it's bliss.

        --
        Regards,
        - Jacob Atzen

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        • Andy Hassall

          #5
          Re: Versioning system for web development

          On 24 Jan 2005 18:58:58 GMT, Jacob Atzen <jacob@aub.dk > wrote:
          [color=blue]
          >On 2005-01-24, wald <arnout.standae rt@n*o_s-p%a|m.cit.kuleu ven.ac.be> wrote:[color=green]
          >> Sandman <mr@sandman.net > wrote:
          >>[color=darkred]
          >>> I've looked at subversion as well, but I don't know how to
          >>> determine if it's suitable.[/color]
          >>
          >> I'd recommend Subversion, since it tracks renames and moves quite
          >> well.[/color]
          >
          >I'll just second that in case anyone cares ;)
          >
          >I have no experience with commercial VC systems, but compared to CVS
          >it's bliss.[/color]

          I'll third it. I tried CVS but didn't like the limitations. Everything about
          Subversion seems to make sense.

          --
          Andy Hassall / <andy@andyh.co. uk> / <http://www.andyh.co.uk >
          <http://www.andyhsoftwa re.co.uk/space> Space: disk usage analysis tool

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