Re: metastore

From: Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>
Date: Sep 16, 2007, 01:10 UTC
Message-ID: <86r6kzxvnm.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709151733260.24221@asgard.lang.hm>

>>>>> "david" == david  <david@lang.hm> writes:

>> Why does everyone keep wanting "work dir == live dir".  Ugh!  The work dir is
>> the *source*... it gets *copied* into your live dir *somehow*.  And *that* is
>> where the meta information needs to be.  In that "somehow".

david> the problem is that at checkin you need to do the reverse process. the david> other tools that you use on the system work on the live dir, not the david> 'work dir', so it's only a 'work dir' in that git requires it as an david> staging step between the repository and the place where it's going to david> be used.

Eh? Are we still talking about a "website", or "/etc"? I'm talking about the website case. I don't do *anything* to the live site. When I want to add a file, I add it to my dev repo, possibly modifying my Makefile, and then spit it out on my staging server. (You *do* have one of those, right?) Once I know it's good, I push it to the live repo, and then "go live" with it. I *never* work on the files that are the result of "make install".

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