[CS-FSLUG] Web Dev Workflow

[Tim Young]

We use git, though our web-master uses it a fair bit differently than 
normal. I will not attempt to describe how he does it since I think I do 
not understand all of it.  But I have helped a number of developers who 
use git for their website.

I believe the preferred way, with git, is that you have git on both 
sides, with a third git "repo" somewhere (usually a directory of the dev 
server).  And you check-in the changes on your dev server and then tell 
the webserver to check-out the changes.  The nice thing about that is it 
not only has a backup of every page, but it lets you roll back to any 
version of the web-page you need to.  Say, an un-hacked version 3 days 
back...  Having the git hosted on the remote site, using different 
credentials, should keep the hacker from being able to push his changes 
back to the git repo.

I have helped a few people use this system, and it works quite nicely.

     - Tim Young


On 9/6/2016 4:45 PM, Timothy Butler wrote:
> This list has been quiet for too long, so I thought I’d wake y’all up. 
> Any web developers on here that want to share their workflow? I’m 
> wondering if I can come up with something better.
>
> Here’s what I do: I have a test account on my server that I directly 
> open and save everything in my text editor’s project to. I then have a 
> bash script that deploys the new code to the different accounts on the 
> server once I’m ready to deploy it. It’s simple, but there are a lot 
> of nifty new editors being released these days, including Sublime 
> Edit, Microsoft’s open source Visual Studio Code, etc., that all look 
> intriguing, but most of them have no project management.
>
> What do you use and how do you manage your coding projects these days? 
> (Especially those that need to get over to a remote server on a 
> regular basis?)
>
> Blessings,
> Tim
>
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