Re: Using git for code deployment on webservers?

From: Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@rameria.de>
Date: Jun 17, 2009, 17:42 UTC
Message-ID: <200906171942.43002.ioe-lkml@rameria.de>
In-Reply-To: <20090616071328.GB6615@lifeintegrity.com>

Hi Allan,

On Tuesday 16 June 2009, Allan Wind wrote:

> If you do not mind having a full repository on the web servers, 
> then pushing changes might work better.  This appears to be what 
> you are doing now though.

No, at the moment we have built our own version of a content addressable filesystem and are distributing changes to it. We have symlinks to real file names.

I just thought, that git can do sth. similiar with its core, before trying to solve a solved problem :-)

> If I had to scale this I would probably build a master image 
> (either locally or remotely) and use rsync to distribute the 
> content instead of git.

We do sth. similiar at the moment. De-duplication is important, because web people copy lots of data for images and flash around when doing things.

> > - Nearly atomic update of file tree (easy to implement outside git)
> 
> stow can be handy for this.

Ah! Will have a look.

Many Thanks!

Best Regards

Ingo Oeser