You can also have a development branch and push it to heroku. The app in production is tied to the master branch, so commit/push to the dev branch and once you're happy, merge with master and push to see it in production.
Something like this git branch dev git checkout dev ...make changes... git commit -a git push origin dev BTW github is giving away a free month for it's paid accounts, highly recommend you try it http://github.com/blog/247-cyber-monday-sale On Dec 1, 3:35 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1 dec, 01:14, "Josh Coffman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> I'm also new to > git, rails, etc. git is entirely different than > > subversion.. > > Yes i noticed > if you haven't already, read up on distributed source> control. > > I have > > I've got git installed, and when I commit, it commits to my local> git > repository. I think that's how git always works. > Agree > > You then push changes > > to heroku when ready. actually, I'm pushing to unfuddle as my offsite > > repo. I haven't yet, but I will later push to Heroku to deploy it. > > Yes ok so you have a central repository on another place (unfuddle) > than heroku and deploy to heroku from there. > > > > > -j > > > Josh | [EMAIL PROTECTED]<[EMAIL > > PROTECTED]>|http://computeristsolutions.comhttp://www.linkedin.com/in/joshuacoffman|http://twitter.com/joshcoffman > > > On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 2:01 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm new to Heroku and just getting used to git and ruby on rails. My > > > background is Java EE and subversion. I'm planning to create an > > > application for a customer of mine on heroku. it is a little > > > administrative application. > > > > I noticed that when I am editing code online it shows immediately in > > > "production" this is not i want especially not after deploying version > > > 1.0 of my app. > > > > So i made a working copy on my laptop and edited some sources and > > > pushed it back to heroku. Instead of just committing, the database got > > > changed and my app got restarted. This was much more than i intended > > > to do. I just wanted to commit not deploy my changes. > > > > I am used to a very controlled cycle from development to production > > > and for now i would like to stick with that what is the preferred way > > > of working with heroku? > > > > Do I have to create a git repository on a server for my team and push > > > to that repository when they want to share code. and when i want to > > > deploy i push from that repository to heroku? > > > > Thanks anyway, > > > > Joris --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Heroku" group. To post to this group, send email to heroku@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
