Workflow for Small Web Projects?
"Michael Lovitt" <[email protected]> Mon, 1 Mar 2004 23:01:57 -0600
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.version-control.sourcegear-vault.user |
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| Message-ID | <200403012247953.SM01644@lovittnotebook> |
We currently use Vault with Visual Studio for large ASP.Net projects, and we'd like to begin using it for small web projects, but are uncertain how to incorporate it into our workflow. By small web projects, I mean the following: 3-5 developers, a development server where the web site lives (a PHP site in this case). Developers download files from the site via FTP to work on them, and upload them when they're done. That's it. There are no daily builds or, indeed, builds of any kind, and developers often can't view their changes locally; they have to upload back to the server to test. Development lasts only 6-8 weeks before the site is handed off to the client. Ideally, source control in this context would work like this: a developer checks out a file from the repository. He works on it locally, occasionally uploading it to the development site to test his changes, and when he's done, he initiates a single action that both uploads the file to an FTP server and checks it back into the repository. I guess what I'm saying is that I want Vault to automatically copy files to an FTP server on check in. We've tried Dreamweaver's limited source control features, which approximates the above scenario. But it's extremely flaky, and obviously lacks 99% of Vault's capabilities. Has anyone used Vault for projects like this? Any ideas on how one could? Michael