Re: recipe to use git for deployment

From: Neal Kreitzinger <nkreitzinger@gmail.com>
Date: May 5, 2012, 05:30 UTC
Message-ID: <4FA4BAF3.10601@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1336190286-sup-3813@nixos>

On 5/4/2012 11:10 PM, Marc Weber wrote:

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> If you really care that much about history why not push a zip file
> using git archive --format=zip and unpack that on the deployment
> server instead?
>

I summon forth the ents to do my bidding with one command to find them: --format=tar one command to transform them: --prefix=deployed/path one command to arm them: config tar.umask (executable bits) one command to gather them: tar -A and one command to bind them: gzip

(We don't have the new tar with the transform option)

They are faithful and true and have won many battles, but I fear they may be too slow and lumbering for the gathering whirlwind of patches about to descend from above and legion of servers encircling them on all sides.

Interestingly, git-archive was not intended for deployment, but it does pretty good at it.

(Sorry, I haven't even read LOTR, but couldn't resist the opportunity to use the word 'ent' after reading about it in git-glossary ;)

v/r, neal