[GLLUG] CVS newbie

[asenchi at asenchi.com]

On Thu Sep 09, 2004 at 09:59:27PM -0400, Charles Ulrich wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 17:17, Mark Szidik/mlc wrote:
> > I am new to CVS, I want to use it in a bit of a less traditional way - for
> > tracking website changes.   Does anyone do that?  What I am confused about
> > is where the web server should look to for it's copy of the site.  Does it
> > look in the CVROOT's repository location?  That seems to make sense to me
> > since any updates to the repository will get to the website immediately.
> > Or does it work better to occasionally checkout the site to the location
> > where the web server looks for the files?
> 
> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/svnbook/apa.html
> 
> Hope this doesn't sound too much like an advertisement, but we just
> started using Subversion extensively where I work and we've found it to
> be very slick and it's already saved us a couple times.
> 

I have to agree with Charles here, Subversion is very nice.  I just recently
started working with Subversion this summer and it is a really comfortable
environment to work in.  It seems like the better option, especially for the
web stuff you are going to be working with.

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