On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Paul Bouzakis <[email protected]> wrote:
> What are some best practices building a Joomla site with a team. > > I am currently joining a company where they currently are editing code on > the live servers. This is not a good situation, and I have heard of some > disaster stories in the company where people were overwriting their work, > and by mistake deleting/moving files. > > I would love to get a development environment setup including incorporating > SVN. I am used to developing custom php web applications, where all > configuration and code are in files. With Joomla, some configuration > (usually extensions) are in the DB. > Use Git if your not running windows, Mercurial if you are. Every user gets their own branch to push commits up to. One master repo where they can push stuff to be released. You can use write on commit scripts for the master repo so when something is pushed there it is automatically released to production. Alternatively, some people like to use Hudson and Phing scripts to monitor the master repo and run updates that way.
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