[support] Using Git for Site Building

Rolf Kutz rk at vzsze.de
Fri Oct 28 09:41:12 UTC 2011


Hi Sebastian,

On 25/10/11 19:13 +0700, sebastian wrote:
>For the database I do dumps, which are in my SVC so I can also roll back
>to an old one and then import. Granted I would still like to improve
>this part of my process, as it is the only thing which is not
>automatically being tracked. It's the last manual process, but
>fortunately because it is dumping into the repository as well, I don't
>have to rename the exported DB name and I can thus just re-use the same
>script to dump. I guess theoretically you could batch that with drush
>even, or before any drush update.

For a new site, this is nice, but if you develop
for a site with content, this get's complicated,
since you don't want to overwrite the content. At
least not, when you propagate your new settings
and code to the the live version. Any solution for
that?

>If anyone has a better way of getting an snapshot of the DB I'd love to
>hear it.

Me too.

Have a nice day
Rolf

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