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

[Mike Evans]

Yes - I looked at the link - but when you wrote "if I edit files on the 
server" I thought you were meaning editing the live files.  Editing 
files on the server by extracting them from the hub git repository and 
putting them back there is really no different from editing them on any 
other machine.  In that case you don't need to copy files around with 
rsync as git should take care of it all - including updating a clone you 
have on another machine.

The bogeyman only strikes if you edit files which are accessed by the 
live webserver.  I see that the article assumes you might do that - in 
any organisation I've worked in the post-commit script would email the 
bogeyman directly.  Quite often the bogeyman was me :)

In fact there would always be an additional step.  Prime would in fact 
be the repository that the pre-production server ran from.  There would 
be another repository, must better protected, on from that to which 
versions signed off in pre-production test would get pushed.  And the 
key thing there would be that the development team would not have rights 
to do that.