On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Yes, it's certainly quite possible that you simply don't have any > management scripts etc, and that you don't generate any files, and you > simply want to just deploy the exact files that you also want to track. > But that really is a fairly unusual thing to do. Example management scripts: let's say that you have a logo that shows up in multiple different sizes. You can just have it as <n> number of different files that you check in and update separately, or you can have it as *one* scalable master file, and then the deployment script will create all the generated files and put them in the deployment area. So the common issue with SCM's is that you want to share two totally different things: - the actual "source" (which obviously doesn't have to be source code per se), which is the thing you want to have for yourself and people you work with, and which you want the history of. - the "output" for external entities, which may often contain a lot of the "source" verbatim, but quite often doesn't contain it all (some of the stuff you need to manage things may be rather private and purely for *your* management info), and almost invariably contains some post-processing. Some people don't split this up, and they tend to make horrible horrible mistakes, like checking in the *results* of the post-processing too (ie binary result blobs that can be regenerated from the other files), because they don't make a clear separation between the parts they do development on, and the end result. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
