Re: Using git for code deployment on webservers?

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>
> Hi there,
>
> I try to use git in a quite unusual way.
>
> I have a bunch of servers (hundreds), which get regular pulls of web
> developer code. The code consists of images, flash files, scripting
> language files, you name it. An exported repo (just the files, no SCM
> metadata) contains up to 4GB of files.
>
> No I want to distribute changes the developers made in a tree like
> structure:
>
> main server --> slave_1 --> webserver_0815
>
>             |-> slave_2 --> webserver_2342
>             |
>                         |-> webserver_4711
>
> But with the following contraints:
> - Store as little as possible on the webservers.
>   One selected revision/tag is enough.
> - Transfer as little as possible data.
>   Cancel out addition and deletion on the fly.
> - Nearly atomic update of file tree (easy to implement outside git)
>
> Nice to have:
> - Instead of copying the files to their proper names,
>   hardlink them to their git objects.
>
> At the moment I always get more data than I need and have to store
> the repository AND the checked out data.
>
> I couldn't find a way so far to get around this. Is this possible?
> Any ideas are welcome.
>
> Many Thanks in Advance!
>
> Best Regards
>
> Ingo Oeser
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