[Catalyst] Deployment in practice

[John Goulah]

2009/10/9 Octavian Râşniţă <orasnita at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> I've recently started to use Mercurial for revision control and the pages
> regarding the deployment of a Catalyst app from the Catalyst wiki also help
> me very much, but I still don't know what would be the best method for
> uploading the files to the server.
>
> How do you do it?
> Archive the entire app an dupload to the server then change the permissions
> of the files and folders there?
> Or upload the modified files one by one?
> Or generate a tarball on each revision and unarchive and make, make test it
> on the server?
> Or something else?
>

I like to have a revision per code push and rsync it out.   What I
don't recommend is updating code directly from a repo on the server,
it will get you eventually.

http://blog.johngoulah.com/2009/03/code-deployment-techniques/