[Catalyst] Cache of unchanging content

[Tomas Doran]

On 2 Mar 2011, at 17:27, Pedro Melo wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Tomas Doran <bobtfish at bobtfish.net>  
> wrote:
>> Installing to production servers via rsync / unison is insane, as  
>> there is
>> exactly no way of knowing what version the production server is on,  
>> with
>> what bugs...
>
> Of course you can. You can include a file .version at the root created
> with 'git describe --always' > .version before you rsync, and then
> include it on your test reports.
>
> Rsync is a valid deployment method, specially if you use a stage
> server where you make install you app.

Ah, but then you're deploying a specific sha1 from git, rather than  
just rsyncing a directory!

And as you'll have a script to ensure that you have reset --hard  
MYSHA1 (otherwise you are perfectly screwed just as I described), then  
you can put the build parts in there...

Cheers
t0m