[consulting] managing many sites

[Jason Flatt]

On Wednesday 14 December 2005 20:25, Richard Archer wrote:
> At 7:47 PM -0800 14/12/05, Jason Flatt wrote:
> >I've always equated CVS to being unstable.  (For example, E17.)  Are you
> >saying that Drupal CVS is rather stable and not any more likely to break a
> >site than the "official" stable versions?
>
> Don't run the HEAD of the CVS repository on a production server!
> Even if Drupal isn't broken, contrib modules will be.
>
> The idea of using CVS is that you check out the 4.6 release branch
> from CVS. And you can then use cvs update to suck down updates.
>
> Something like:
>
> cvs -d :pserver:anonymous at cvs.drupal.org:/cvs/drupal \
> co -r DRUPAL-4-6 drupal
>
> Then to update you just do:
> cvs update -dP
>
> Same goes for contrib modules.

Okay.  Then that makes a lot of sense.  :^)

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