I know I am a little late to the party but I made a pretty lengthy blog post on this subject a couple of years ago...
http://www.sumoc.com/blog/index.cfm/2005/9/21/Subversion-Development-Models--Local-vs-Remote-Development -Cameron James Smith wrote: > I am looking into subversion and have got it working etc... but I am > wondering how the group organises the development with it. We currently have > several developers machines, one testing server and one production server > and I can see a few options... > > 1) Have one set of code on the testing server that all developers edit > directly. > 2) All developers have local copies that are synced to the testing server by > svn. > > The first has advantages for testing since the testing server will always > have the latest copies of files but it isn't taking full advantage of svn > and if two developers edit the same file one will lose their changes. > > The second takes full advantage of the svn system but means all developers > will have to run local copies of any sites they are editing for testing > purposes meaning more setup time, more software to manage, and more chance > code will work locally but not on the servers. > > I am thinking we will have to go with the second option. > > Does anyone have any comments or recommendations. > > -- > Jay > > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.15.30/1125 - Release Date: 11/11/2007 > 21:50 > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Download the latest ColdFusion 8 utilities including Report Builder, plug-ins for Eclipse and Dreamweaver updates. http;//www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs%5adobecf8%5Fbeta Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:246462 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
