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Re: Development permissions

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On 9/21/21 11:26 PM, Charles Curley wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Sep 2021 23:09:41 -0400
> "Paul M. Foster" <paulf@quillandmouse.com> wrote:
>
>> Say you have a directory in which there are development files. A
>> number of users will be creating, deleting and modifying the files
>> there. This is the type of situation which might have been common on
>> old Unix university systems. (Users might be accessing files via
>> Samba, NFS, or locally.)
>>
>> Just to make this more concrete, assume the development tree is in
>> /var/www/html/website.
> This sounds like a development nightmare. It sounds like you are asking
> people to step on each other's changes.
>
> Much better to set up a version control system (git, e.g.), and let
> everyone develop in their own spaces. People can code and test away
> to their hearts' content. Wen they are satisfied, they check their
> changes in. Then deployment is a matter of "git pull" (or equivalent) on
> the working copy.

Yeah, I use git in other contexts. In this particular instance, when 
these projects were created, git didn't exist. While I could implement 
it here, the other user is on a Mac. I've had experience trying to 
install "normal" software (like git) on a Mac (software not blessed by 
Apple), and it's not a pleasant experience. Additionally, the other 
developer uses Dreamweaver and doesn't do well with administrative tasks 
like "git push". I'm trying to make this as painless for her as 
possible. Under any other development circumstances, I would absolutely 
choose git.

However, as I said, this type of situation had to be common on old Unix 
systems, and they didn't have git. They had to have solved it some other 
way.

Paul

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Development permissions "Paul M. Foster" <paulf@quillandmouse.com> - 2021-09-22 05:20 +0200
  Re: Development permissions Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2021-09-22 05:50 +0200
    Re: Development permissions "Paul M. Foster" <paulf@quillandmouse.com> - 2021-09-22 06:20 +0200
      Re: Development permissions David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2021-09-22 06:30 +0200
      Re: Development permissions Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2021-09-22 06:40 +0200
      Re: Development permissions Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2021-09-22 09:30 +0200
  Re: Development permissions Georgi Naplatanov <gosho@oles.biz> - 2021-09-22 05:50 +0200
    Re: Development permissions "Paul M. Foster" <paulf@quillandmouse.com> - 2021-09-22 06:20 +0200
      Re: Development permissions Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-09-22 07:40 +0200
        Re: Development permissions Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-09-25 08:40 +0200
      Re: Development permissions Georgi Naplatanov <gosho@oles.biz> - 2021-09-22 07:40 +0200
      Re: Development permissions Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk> - 2021-09-22 10:30 +0200
  Re: Development permissions Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2021-09-22 09:00 +0200
    Re: Development permissions Alex Mestiashvili <amestia@rsh2.donotuse.de> - 2021-09-24 10:30 +0200
      Re: Development permissions Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2021-09-24 11:30 +0200
        Re: Development permissions Alex Mestiashvili <amestia@rsh2.donotuse.de> - 2021-09-24 11:50 +0200
          Re: Development permissions Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2021-09-24 15:30 +0200
        Re: Development permissions <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-09-24 14:10 +0200
          Re: Development permissions Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2021-09-24 15:10 +0200
            Re: Development permissions Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2021-09-24 15:50 +0200
            Re: Development permissions <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-09-24 16:10 +0200
  Re: Development permissions Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2021-09-24 04:40 +0200

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