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Re:Monorepos by StavrosK on Saturday August 29, 2015 @07:29AM (#10139676)
What sort of def scaffolding do you mean? The benefits of just pulling the repo are that you can use ansible-pull to automatically update the servers whenever new code is merged to master, which would be more complicated if you had the CI server doing the pushing.
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Re:Monorepos by shoo on Saturday August 29, 2015 @07:49AM (#10139711)
> What sort of def scaffolding do you mean?

version control software, to start with. perhaps more.

i guess my viewpoint is coloured as the last thing i was working on was deployed to client desktop machines. there was absolutely no way we were going to be pushing to those with version control.

if you are deploying to a server you own, i guess in principle you can do whatever you want. one of my colleagues rigged a build to create a debian package for the server-side version of the code we worked on. that took a bit of mucking about to get going but was very nice when it was set up.

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Re:Monorepos by StavrosK on Saturday August 29, 2015 @08:06AM (#10139741)
Building a deb is also an option, I generally don't prefer it because just pulling is easier to set up, and debs don't have that many advantages when you're dealing with interpreted server code.
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