using CVS to update/create a php website.

sijis

i have cvs on my linux box.
I have noticed that it is possible (i think) to use cvs to update a website. So if i was to check out a file, update it and then commit the changes. Those changes to that file would also take place on my website.

i'm thinking something like this:

/home/cvsmaster/dir/file.php
.. after editing file above
.. do something magical here
.. and put it on website
/var/home/dir/file.php

is there some tutorial, example or how-to manual that could show me how to make this possible?

thanks.

dalecosp

Probably is, I know freebsd.org does it this way....

Backara_Drift

I was looking for a way to do this as well so if anybody has a link to a tutorial?

sijis

well funny thing is i've been searching and i've found 'somehow' a way to do it.
i first read this useful tutorial on how to setup cvs for web development
http://www.durak.org/cvswebsites/

but it stop short on where i wanted it to go. But i did get something useful out of it.. i can use 'cvs export'.
this will allow you to export the files in the cvs depository and remove the cvs content inside of it.

I still haven't figured out how to export just 1 file, but it's somehow working. I still see some problems though.

so lets assume you have your depository here:
/home/user/cvsmaster/www.domain.com/login/login.php

to export you would do:
go to www root. in my case
/var/www/
then do
cvs export -D "now" www.domain.com/login/login.php

its the only thing i have so far... anything else you find would be greatly useful.

Backara_Drift

Well I found this http://cvswebpublisher.cvshome.org/
but it comes with no documentation of any sort so only way to find out whats going on is to try....

I will let you know how I go

Backara_Drift

Having looked around for a suitable alternative most sites reccomend writing a perl poush script unfortunatly I havent found an example script anywhere.

sijis

could you post what URL(s) you where reading about that PERL push code?

maybe I can find that code 🙂

on another note, i wrote to the developer of cvswebpublisher and this is what he wrote:

the documentation will be up with the new documentation site. i think we will release it at the end of the month, after i return from spain.

That was 2 weeks ago and as of right now, there is no documents on the website.