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loup-vaillant on July 18, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: GIT is the new FTP

Err, what about rsync? My blog is versioned with git, but compiled with USSM¹. I don't want to version the generated html code, so I deploy it with a one line shell script that just calls rsync through ssh. Simple, and fast.

So in my case, rsync looks better than git at deployment. I can't imagine a scenario where the reverse is true. Does someone have a counterexample?

[1] My home-made Jekyll clone: http://loup-vaillant.fr/projects/ussm/

ZoFreX on July 18, 2012 [–]

An alternative, if you do want to use VCS for deployment, is rather than versioning the compiled HTML, create a hook that compiles it.

My website is stored in mercurial currently, and when I push to the server it runs bundle and compiles the site.

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