Development / Production Recommended Workflow?

[Alessandro Dentella]

On Thu, Aug 05, 2021 at 02:32:33PM +0100, Simon Harrison wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Aug 2021 07:07:46 -0600
> Bob Hood <bhood2 at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> > I think the next step up from the patch approach would be simply to
> > run a web server on your local repo and pull the change to your
> > sever.  This of course assumes you have the ability to (briefly)
> > expose your local repo to the Internet so the server can see it.
> > 
> > https://tortoisehg.readthedocs.io/en/latest/serve.html
> > 
> 
> Thanks Bob. I'm fine with pushing to the server (already push to other
> servers from local for backup purposes). The problem is, I can't quite
> get my head around how to manage the differences between the two
> repo's. Which is why I've not done it yet. 
> 
> The local one has a different database and some settings are
> different between the two. I'm probably very much under using the
> features of Mercurial!

A recomended setup is to have local config variables stored in env variables or
in a file that is not registered in mercurial.

You probably have password or tokens you don't want to share and is much safer
not to store in a repository.

It's not difficult to achieve this, just add the local config file to .hgignore

At this point you simply push to server and then from server you pull.


sandro
*:-)