SVN with Cloverleaf

[Ryan Mahon]

I would like to implement Sub Version (SVN) as our version control for cloverleaf. My first thought is to add each site folder to the repository while excluding certain subdirectories (exec/processes). We would setup a job to commit the sites every night and capture any changes to TCL procs, alerts and other configurable items. I think the biggest impact is setting it up when the site is imported and then checked out since it would require a downtime. Other than that it should be transparent to the end user.

I am looking for any suggestions or tips from anyone who has taken on this task.

Thank you

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[Barun Gupta]

Hi Ryan,

Hope that you are doing well!!!

Need your valuable points to keep in mind to implement the SVN with cloverleaf.As i have to work from level 0 and also i am new on this. so it would be good if you can shared any document if any.

Thanks,

Barun

[Karl Garen]

Hi,

This may or may not be helpful, but our team will be weighing the pros and cons for this in the near future, at some level.  One of the thinngs I am advocating for is actually separating the “executable” code” (ie the code (Xlate, tclprocs etc. that sit in a given $HCISITEDIR) from the source (which could live in another directory structure / repository outside of the engine site directories.  I think it may be a safer and less impactful method of maintaining the code.    Of course we have not tried this, so this may or may not be problematic.

Karl Garen
Sr. Programmer Analyst
University of Vermont Medical Center
Burlington, Vermont

[Steve Herber]

I have considered adding a nightly cron job on my production system to use rsync to make a backup of the whole production site onto a test server.  Then on the test server I could use any version control system I wanted and I would have a place to do analysis of the system without being on the production system and without impacting the production system.

Steve Herber
University of Washington

[Barun Gupta]

Thank You!!

Do we have some document step to step,please share if any available.Also please little explain how Trunk, Tags and Branch is working and its importance.

Thanks

Barun

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