Browsable website while version-controled?

Question

I browsed around here on Stackoverflow and found this topic : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/279/aspnet-visual-studio-and-subversion-how-to-integrate

However that didn't help me in my case, or i might just be a little stupid.

So to my problem!

Installed VisualSVN on a Server far far away and while this works perfectly, i can add my project and have a nice source control, i dont want to "manually" move my website to the correct place when im done, i want to map an IIS website to a cataloge on the SVN repo. where my site is stored.

Now this is my problem, i can't figure out if this is possible or not? The project is of course on my computer + the repo. and the repo-server and iis-server is the same machine, so i'd like to map those together, but i know that SVN uses some berkly-db-stuff on files..

Suggestions?

Answer 1

It's possible. The Berkeley DB is used at the repository side, but it doesn't really affect the client side. Subversion creates .svn folders everywhere, so if you don't like that use rsync.

Edit: I missed the part you already have VisualSVN Server. All you need is a Subversion client like TortoiseSVN or command line svn on your web site to check out the web site.

Answer 2

What you need is a post-commit hook, they're small batch files that live in the repository's folders (there should be placeholder files in the hooks subfolder)

You set up the post commit hook to checkout the repository to a folder on your server and point your webserver to that same folder.