Hi Michael,
Take a look at rsync, http://www.rsync.org/, I think you'll find it very useful. I've
been using it for several months now to do software releases to the production boxes
for one of our websites with excellent results.
Here's our production install script:
#!/bin/sh
The short answer? RTFM, pay attention to the discussion of tags and branches. Don't
be afraid to experiment with things in a test repository.
Basically you want to cut a release branch when you're ready to start testing. Make
any bugfixes prior to release on this branch and then tag the bran
If a file has conflicts when merging, the original is saved as .#original_name.x where
x is the revision number the working copy is based on (I think).
-Damian
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