Subversion deployment workflow for webdevelopment

Question

Hello everyone,

Im still learning the basics of subversion but since the beginning i had a goal to achieve with this cvs: automating the site deployment process.

Is there any solution to automate the process of site updates to the webserver?

Thanks!

Answer 1

If you checkout the code to the server you can create a post-commit hook that automatically updates that working copy when a commit is made. This is probably only useful if you have a separate branch just for deployment, that you merge into the code that is ready for deployment.

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Answer 2

I wrote a script a while ago to do exactly what you want for Windows.

It does assume that you are pushing across a network share and that you are wanting some work flow like Developer -> Source Control -> Dev Server.

Publishing Subversion Repositories using Windows XP/2000/2003