The Squizion Software weblog

It’s not rocket science, but it surprised me just how painlessly I could set up automatic web site updates from my subversion repository. It’s all documented out there on the net, but this is my chance to record how I manage this site.

My testing ground is a working directory. My published web site is a working directory. When I commit a change, the published site is automatically updated to the latest trunk code.

• Set up the published site as a working directory:
  

  svn co file:///path-to-my-repo my-web-sitedir

• Set up the post-commit hook (in /path/to/my-repo/hooks) to run ’svn update /path/to/my-web-sitedir’. There are more details in the subversion FAQ

Of course, none of that fancy version control applies to these blog posts. Posts are in a database and there’s a plugin for managing versions.

Hello, my name is Dave and I’ll be your host this evening.

This is my first post on the Squizion Software weblog. On this blog, I’ll be writing about topics that interest me: software, Linux, OS X, ruby, my family (ok, should have put that last one first).

Check out About Me if you want to know more about me. And enjoy…