[Klug-general] rsync woes, or, version control for web-developers?

[Karl Buckland]

If you're a lone developer, then just having regular backups should
suffice and possibly suit your work flow better. In a team, I'd
recommend using version control and then writing some scripts to
deploy your website, by checking the files out of your version control
system and uploading them to your server.

Karl

On 12 November 2011 09:15, James Morris <jwm.art.net at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've found this:
>
> http://joemaller.com/990/a-web-focused-git-workflow/
>
> which looks pretty helpful.
>
> James.
>
> On 12 November 2011 09:12, James Morris <jwm.art.net at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I've just hosed several long hours worth of PHP coding/bug-fixing with
>> rsync. The other day I'd made some minor modifications on the server
>> and didn't want to download the entire directory so I thought I'd try
>> rsync for the first time. It worked and I was pleased.
>>
>> This morning however I wanted to upload some modifications but
>> couldn't remember the command so I grep my history and without
>> thinking copy, paste, and execute the same command all over.
>>
>> No no backup.
>>
>>
>> For some reason... I just don't understand why but I had it in my
>> thick head I can't use git or svn or anything with my shell account.
>> But git is installed there, but I've only ever used github.com before
>> now so only know one side of the story so to speak.
>>
>> Any tips?
>>
>> James.
>>
>
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