[ale] CVS repository as apache DocumentRoot

[Ray Knight]

On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 13:58, Joseph Knapka wrote:
> Benjie Godfrey <bgodfrey at layton-graphics.com> writes:
> 
> > >Josh
> > >
> > >On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 12:07, Michael E. Barker wrote:
> > >
> > >> Does anyone have experience in making a CVS repository work as a
> > >> document root for apache.  Basically I'm trying to set up a dev
> > >> site where I don't have to export everytime I make a small change
> > >> but want version control to keep coders from overwriting one
> > >> another.
> > >>
> > >>If you could point me to a howto this would be great.
> > >>
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> > Try this:
> > 
> > http://stud.fh-heilbronn.de/~zeller/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/
> 
> Unfortunately, this won't do what Michael wants. cvsweb provides a web
> view of a CVS repository, but what Michael wants is to have his entire
> web site actually *be* a CVS repository, so that changes to the pages
> take effect "magically" when the .html files or whatnot are checked
> into CVS.
> 
> Michael, I suggest you do this:
> 
> (1) Check your document root and its subdirs into a regular CVS
> respository as usual.
> 
> (2) Do a "cvs get" of the document root to establish the base working
> document root for your web server.
> 
> (3) Have a cron job on the web server do a "cvs update -d" in the
> document root every ten minutes or so. That way, changes will
> always appear within ten minutes of checkin.
> 
> The only problem you'll have with this is that files that are
> *deleted* from the CVS repository won't get deleted from
> the web server's document tree. That's kind of a bugger.
> 

You could resolve this by having your script monitor the output of the
cvs update -d command.  Files existing in the document directory that no
longer exist in the repository will be preceded by a ? in the cvs update
output.  You could then delete these files.

Ray



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