Deploying changed files from repository?

Question

Hi everybody,

I have tested both mercurial and SVN recently, and I fell for Mercurial to solve my version control needs. However, I have files in my repo, that I work on locally and commit my changes to daily.

I have yet not found any way to deploy files to a remote production environment from my local testing environment.

How can I do this and by "one click only" replace and/or update the files that have been changed from a mercurial repo?

I have FTP access to my production environment and, if that makes any difference.

Thanks

Answer 1

• You can use rsync to copy over the changes from your working directory.

• You can use hg diff to generate a patch, or hg diff -r <rev> to generate a patch from a particular revision, and then apply the change remotely.

• You could make the remote end an hg repo and then push to it and update it.

• You could keep your local changes with quilt or hg mq and migrate those patches.

• You could just copy over the whole working directory, with replacement.

Answer 2

Why not clone the code? using hg clone my-source-repo in your development location you get an updated state of your code.

Answer 3

When you don't need only the working copy without the repository, you can extract the committed files with hg archive.