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Re: sitecopy-like software for FTP upload

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Kaz Kylheku wrote:
> On 2014-04-16, Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru> wrote:
>> Are there any sitecopy alternatives which do NOT overwrite modified files
>> on the server?
> 
> This bullshit again? Okay I will bite twice.
> 
> What attribute of the file on the server indicates that it is "modified"?
> 
> How would this alternative program detect that a file is "modified" and
> avoid writing to it?
> 
> We connect to the server, log in, and there is a file. It has a
> modification timestamp, permission, ownership ...
> 
> Which of these tells us that it is modified?

Modification timestamp.

> Of course, you mean "modified relative to a prior version based on which
> you made changes." So to check this, we have to download the latest file
> from the FTP server, compare to that ancestral version, and if they match,
> then copy the new version (or else do a three-way merge with GNU diff3 or
> whatever). And we have to ensure that do this atomically somehow; so that
> nobody else can log in concurrently and sneak in their version.

OK, now I realize this can't be implemented outside of a text editor (which 
could remember mtime of a newly opened file to compare it with mtime on the 
FTP server).

Sorry for a stupid question.

> I don't understand why you and your colleagues don't use version
> control and put in place a release process whereby some designated person

Not using version control in our company is one of the reasons why I am 
going soon to send a query letter asking for a job to an other company. 
Certainly I prefer to work with version control.

> who currently holds the "release master stick" checks out a baseline from
> version control and FTP's it up to the server. This person could actually
> be a script that runs periodically or is triggered by commits to the
> master repo.
> 
> Your master repository doesn't have to be on that server under the admin's
> control; it can be on a machine that is under the control of you and your
> collaborators.

-- 
Victor Porton - http://portonvictor.org

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sitecopy-like software for FTP upload Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru> - 2014-04-16 23:29 +0300
  Re: sitecopy-like software for FTP upload Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2014-04-16 20:44 +0000
    Re: sitecopy-like software for FTP upload Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru> - 2014-04-17 00:02 +0300
      Re: sitecopy-like software for FTP upload Öö Tiib <ootiib@hot.ee> - 2014-04-21 05:00 -0700
      Re: sitecopy-like software for FTP upload Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2014-04-23 16:19 +1200
        Re: sitecopy-like software for FTP upload Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2014-04-23 04:39 +0000

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