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Why rsync is a lousy deployment tool

by Dan Ackerson on April 26, 2009 · 2 comments

A couple weeks back I told you how I was preparing subversion to handle our application deployment. Well, I can happily tell you that I finally finished this earlier in the week, but things didn’t go exactly as planned. You see, I finally realized rsync is the real workhorse for handling deployments in our environment [...]

Super-simple Ruby Subversion Command Line Wrapper

by Matthias Marschall on January 15, 2009 · 2 comments

Like Dan did recently, I was setting up a Subversion repository one year ago. Of course, I also wanted to have regular backups of my Subversion repository. As I was tired of writing bash scripts for such a task, I looked into writing a simple Ruby script for backing up my Subversion repositories.
Full and Incremental [...]

Leveraging Subversion Hooks for Fun and Profit

by Dan Ackerson on January 4, 2009 · 4 comments

Last week, I showed you how to setup a secure subversion server. Today, I’d like to show you how to technically accomplish a couple of development themes that are near and dear to my heart. The first is creating a quality gate with a release branch and creating a team of committers who are the [...]

Setting Up A Secure Subversion Source Code Repository

by Dan Ackerson on December 28, 2008 · 7 comments

Our source code repository is currently hosted at the offshore development site and there is no external access to it (neither through the Internet nor a VPN). While this is certainly desirable from a security standpoint, I’d really love to see what the developers are actually working on.
I asked the director there to put me [...]