From: Kris Shannon <kris@shannon.id.au>
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 06:38:22 GMT
Subject: Re: I don't want the .git directory next to my code.
Message-ID: <478EF7DE.3090709@shannon.id.au>
In-Reply-To: <478EEAC4.2010006@talkingspider.com>

Mike wrote:
> 
> 
> Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
>> Some people don't split this up, and they tend to make horrible 
>> horrible mistakes, like checking in the *results* of the 
>> post-processing too (ie binary result blobs that can be regenerated 
>> from the other files), because they don't make a clear separation 
>> between the parts they do development on, and the end result.
> 
> Honestly, I think your mode of thinking is centered around compiled 
> languages and linux app(/kernel) development.  The web app 
> development/deployment model is very different.
> 
> With PHP, Python, and Ruby, the development is the deployment.  The 
> source is the output.  You can't develop web apps in those languages 
> unless the source files you're working on are under the doc root of your 
> development server.   "the parts they do development on" and "the end 
> result" *are* the same files.

Not for me.  I've always had my source separate from development docroot
even before I was using proper SCM's.  I've written stuff in all three
languages you mention where deployment to the docroot (development or not)
was more than a simple copy.