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Subject:    Re: [Quanta] Quanta and ftp
From:       James Ellis <james.ellis () gmail ! com>
Date:       2005-08-02 0:21:40
Message-ID: ff7ed71605080117217cde4e9 () mail ! gmail ! com
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Hi

So true, something I have come up with in development is a difficult
education process about CVS/SVN and that FTP is NOT a version control
system nor is it a reliable way of updating a site. It's a File
Transfer Protocol.

An additional benefit of a version control system is tagging, doing an
export on a certain tag, then rolling up the site as a package (zip
tar rpm whatever) for release and, as Eric says, rollback when things
go bad.

Cheers
James



> * While we support FTP we discourage it because it sends your site password in
> cleartext and this is incredibly easy to sniff, making FTP access only useful
> for sites you don't care if hackers are walking through.
> * Dreamweaver defaults to using the production server as a central repository.
> We consider this insane. Our default is to use CVS (and with the new version
> in development SVN) as a side repository providing versioning, blame
> annotation, conflict resolution and synchronization. Checkouts and updates
> are done with the repository and authorized members review, tag and upload.
> This enables easy rollback of the site.
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