[ic] Risks of websites served from Subversion or CVS checkouts

[Peter]

On 08/19/2008 08:48 PM, Jon Jensen wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, Peter wrote:
> 
>> I just think it's a very bad idea to allow version control to directly 
>> update a running site.
> 
> Why?

Because I've found that CVS updates don't always go smoothly.  You get 
bad connections, corrupted files, conflicts, I've had times where I've 
had to delete the entire repository and check it out again anew.  I 
can't speak for SVN or other systems, though.  I just don't want to have 
to be dealing with a problem with an update on a live site.  I think 
it's much more prudent to run the update on the side then somehow move 
the files over to the live site once you've verified that the update ran 
smoothly.  For me the Makefile.PL process works well for moving the 
files over (among other steps I take to resolve issues specified in the 
UPGRADE file, etc).

Peter