[techtalk] Version Control for Web Sites

[Adriana Gonzalez]

We have already considered CVS, and in fact we use it for version
control of our scripts. I agree it's  an excellent tool.  The problem
though, is that cvs excels when you are manipulating text files, but
it's not that good when you want to handle a lot of images.  I find the
repository model, that thinks about the files of a project as living
under the same directory tree, a little bit impractical for my needs.
My files are scattered all around the server, and their position can be
different when you go from one server to another.
I know it is possible to solve all this with scripting and symbolic
links,  and most likely I will end up using cvs anyway,  I just wanted
to know if there was a tool designed specifically for this situation,
that I could use on linux.

Nicci Tynen wrote:

> Hi Adriana,
>
> I use CVS on my development linux boxes (in fact I make my users on NT
> use CVS for Windows to check out the source from a linux drive mounted
> using SAMBA).  It's a great tool and can merge changes from multiple
> users working on the same file pretty intelligently.
>
> Check out http://www.sourcegear.com/CVS for more information and
> documentation.
>
> Hope it helps.
>
> Nicci
>
> Adriana Gonzalez wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am in need of some recommendations on version control software for
>>
>> linux, that make it easy to update/commit/rollback text and image
>> files
>> of a particular project between development/staging/live servers.
>>
>> I want to be able to define the files that belong to a project, and
>> to
>> map them into their appropriate places in the different server's
>> file
>> structure.  I want to update in a file basis as well as in a project
>>
>> basis, and to manage everything from a web interface.  I know
>> Microsoft
>> Site Server has features like these for the Windows platform, what
>> do we
>> have on Linux?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> --
>>    Adriana Gonzalez
>>
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>
> --
> Nicci Tynen
> nicci at compuvar.com
> "Assassin, Love Slave, Idiot ... LEXX"
>
>


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