Site Deployment with Subversion

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0000

While working for a previous employer I was tasked with developing a new company “intranet” site. Changes rolled out at an aggressive rate and the process of deploying updates via FTP quickly turned into a tedious task.

After a while I decided to spend some personal time thinking of ways to make whole process a bit smoother. A few of days passed as I tossed around various ideas in my head, then it hit me…

Why not just checkout a working copy of the project onto the production server itself?

So simple! All I’d have to do is use the production server’s subversion client to add, update, and remove any changes – deployment becomes as simple as: $ svn up.

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Site Deployment with Subversion