Re: Git - Pushing to a production website

["Jacob Helwig" <jacob.helwig@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 20:23,  <4jxDQ6FQee2H@dyweni.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Our company's website is stored in a GIT Repository.
>
> The repository is coded for our test server.  When we push updates to
> the production server, have manually run a script to patch several
> files to make the code work on the production server (i.e. port
> numbers, etc).
>

Are these all static pages?  If they're Perl/PHP/Ruby/whatever, why
not add tests for the Live vs. Dev?  Check for an environment
variable, or a file on disk, etc, etc?  That way any checks described
below won't get "confused" by the (no longer necessary) patches, and
you won't have to worry about rebasing commits, and any potential
conflicts there.

> I'd like to write a script to email me whenever someone changes files
> on the production server without checking those changes back into git
> (i.e. running 'git status | grep "nothing to commit" ...').
>
> However, this approach get confused by the files patched to work
> correctly.
>
> Is there any way to 'save' those patched files so they don't get
> reported by 'git status', yet not mung up the git history every time
> we push out an update?
>
> Thanks!
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