website-deployment

svn checkout and update without the .svn directory

I have a website under svn and I want to patch the live website with what's currently in the repository (i.e. effectively calling svn update on the live website), but I don't want .svn directories in every folder on the production website. Is there a way to set up svn so that the .svn folder with version information is not in the same d...

Git for Websites / post-receive / Separation of Test and Production Sites

Hi all, I'm using Git to manage my website's source code and deployment, and currently have the test and live sites running on the same box. Following this resource http://toroid.org/ams/git-website-howto originally, I came up with the following post-receive hook script to differentiate between pushes to my live site and pushes to my t...