Re: lineups with GIT

On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, outre wrote:

I am trying to set up two different line-ups for a project (development and
testing).

The development line-up is the master, and test line-up pulls data from it.
The code is the same in both.
But since the line-ups are served from two different domains one folder in
the development line-up is called
iWeb.local, and in the test line-up it is called iWeb.test. That is the only
difference between the two.

I tried using "git mv" command and it somewhat solved the problem. After I
cloned the devel line-up, I used "git rm iWeb.local iWeb.test".
And now if I edit a file in iWeb.local and do a pull to iWeb.test this file
gets properly updated while preserving the difference between
the folder names. But if I add a new file to iWeb.local, and then do a pull
I get  iWeb.local folder added together with the 
new file to the testing line-up.

I was wondering if it is intended behaviour for GIT. And if it is may be
someone can point me to a better way to setup two line-ups using
GIT.

The best thing is probably to have both of them store everything in a 
directory "iWeb", and have whatever process is used to make something 
start serving things copy the directory into whatever location it needs. 
It helps a lot with git if any two versions that are effectively the same 
are exactly the same.

One handy trick is to have a script that reads an untracked file to 
determine where and how to arrange stuff for installation. Then you can 
have different values in the working directories for the two repositories, 
and the same (tracked) script in each repository will do the appropriate 
different thing for that repository, while leaving the tracked content for 
development exactly the same in testing.

	-Daniel
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