Strange SVN scenario - checkouts need to update with no SSH access

Question

Hoping someone has ran into this scenario and can lead me in the right direction.

• Company A hosts a checkout of www.foo.com on their servers.
• Foo inc. owns the code and would like to host the SVN repo on their servers.
• Company A does not want Foo inc. to have SSH privileges on their servers for promotion.

How does Foo inc. host the code and perform updates to Company A's servers?

I was thinking perhaps a cron job which runs on Company's A servers and looks for updates on Foo's servers? Should I be looking into CruiseControl or Hudson? Is there something I'm missing that could be easier?

Thanks.

Answer 1

I think your suggestion is perfectly reasonable.

Foo inc hosts the code, and Company A has access to do updates.

You could consider using a distributed VCS such as Mercurial/Bazaar/Git.

More importantly, does Company A REALLY want to automatically update? Obviously I don't know the real-world implementation here, but in general, automatically updating someone elses checkout is... well.. rude (and probably dangerous).