So i’ve recently drunk the Kool-Aid for version control, I’ve started using it for everything, thanks to the great guys at Slicehost, (help out the hodge by putting dominichodgson@gmail.com as your refe
rral id) they’ve got some awesome subversion tutorials, but its just ….not streamline enough.
I’ve seen many web interfaces to subversion but there is just too much complexity there, heres what I want
- To Update My Subversion Repo on each commit.
- The server that my repo is on has a web server and that updates with the latest version
- To have a decent web interface, where I can view the commits and differences online
- To have a little button that says deploy that will automatically export the latest copy of the “trunk” to the live server
Heres where I am at the moment,
- To Update My Subversion Repo on each commit.
But I’ve not found a tutorial that is
- not out of date
- not half finished
- not too bloody complex and expect me to know everything about hooks, linux and monkey’s mating habits
So Blog readers, what’s the solution?, HELP! 
On another note I love tortoise SVN, I honestly wouldn’t have taken to it so quickly without that program.
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September 14th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
I’ve not used this before but this could be what your after: http://www.springloops.com/ It’s a front-end to SVN with one-click deployment to Live environments.
September 14th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
Thanks a lot Andrew, I’ve signed up and am going to try it
September 14th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
The ultimate solution: Pay a sysadmin to set it all up for you.
Personally I hate web front-ends to version control, makes it too easy for non-cli people to become interested in using version control, and then they expect the people who do know about it to write them useful, detailed, dumbed down tutorials.. and keep them up to date!
Madness I say, madness.
September 14th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
svn commit -m “lots of lovely updates”
cap deploy
September 14th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
Could you not have asked me this last week when I might have had time to help?? OK so you’ve already solved point 1. For viewing, my recommendation is webSVN, its lovely!
The other two points will require a bit of initial setup from you, a bit like putting together backup scripts where you have to look a few things up once and then it will just always work.
Have a look at post-commit commit hooks for putting a copy of the repo on to the web server for testing … I’ll come back with more detail if I get a chance. Basically this is really do-able, but it will take a few steps
September 14th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
Sorry, I haven’t a clue about ‘this’ subversion but always enjoy your posts esp when you show a logo with exactly the swoosh of blue ‘n white I’m looking for…..also see Ikea 2009 p276, now to co-ordinate virtual & real environments, oh but I’ll prob need to bribe a sysadmin to help!