NYCPHP Meetup

[Chris Snyder]

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Anthony Papillion <papillion at gmail.com> wrote:
> So I’m a bit curious and perhaps I’m missing the point here (probably am)
> but why go through all this hassle? Why not just do a straight FTP of the
> files from the staging machine to the deployment machine?  Does using
> checkin/check out benefit us in some way besides the original file integrity
> and management?
>

FTP (uh, SFTP) forces you to upload the entire codebase or
pick-and-choose the files that changed. svn up just gets the changes.

Source control also gives you a quick and easy rollback when you
realize that one of the new files just borked your production site.