[development] Workflow: staging server, source control, and the files directory

[Andy Fowlston]

Brian wrote:
>>  From a db point of view this sounds very similar to what we do. Could you elaborate on how you keep the files in sync?
>Keep which files? The database exports?

Sorry, no not the database at all: I'm wondering about any content related files in the files directory (I presume you use source control for everything outside the files directory?).

> We look at it this way - staging is the canonical database. All config 
> is done on staging, never in the developer-specific local environments.

Yeah, that's how we're doing things at the mo. I'd like to move more (ideally all) of the config to source files, but we're not there yet.

Thanks,

Andy

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