Question about features

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Daniel Carrera wrote:
> Gordon Tyler wrote:
>> Daniel Carrera wrote:
>>> I agree. I plan to use rsync, except that I must be mindful to send
>>> different branches to different directories. For example:
>>>
>>> ** BAD: **
>>> cd ../feature-A/
>>> ... hack ...
>>> rsync avz -e ssh daniel at example.com:test/ .  # So far so good.
>>> cd ../feature-B/
>>> ... hack ...
>>> rsync avz -e ssh daniel at example.com:test/ .  # OOPS.
>>
>> I don't quite understand what would be bad about this. Is it something
>> specific to your testing workflow? I would imagine that introducing
>> extra path elements in the URLs of your site that are merely artifacts
>> of the development process would be bad.
> 
> You know what? I think you are right and I goofed. I was thinking: "what
> if feature A and feature B both edit the same file?".
> 
> But thinking about it a little more, it doesn't matter. On the second
> rsync command, all the changes in feature A are effectively deleted and
> replaced by those in feature B. Is that right? So there's no conflict.
> The test page simply switches from one branch to another.
> 
> Thanks! It looks like I was making this whole thing a lot harder than it
> needed to be. Thanks for the help.
> 
> Cheers,
> Daniel.
> 
> 

Well, if you use "rsync --delete", *just* avz will only create new
files, it won't delete ones that are removed.

John
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