by Howard Miller.
I've read some Git gurus who claim that Git is not intended for deployment. I can see why - on a large project like Moodle you can burn up some amount of disk space and if you are not very organised it can take a long time to clone a repository (answer - don't, copy it).
Having said that, Git is actually fantastic for maintaining sites. Upgrades on the same branch become absolutely trivial, upgrades to a different branch not much newer and grabbing specific fixes simple. It also helps us to maintain all sorts of custom builds of Moodle for different clients.
It also means that we have all this stuff duplicated all over the place. On the one hand this is wasteful, on the other hand we'll have to try very hard indeed to loose anything!!
Having said that, Git is actually fantastic for maintaining sites. Upgrades on the same branch become absolutely trivial, upgrades to a different branch not much newer and grabbing specific fixes simple. It also helps us to maintain all sorts of custom builds of Moodle for different clients.
It also means that we have all this stuff duplicated all over the place. On the one hand this is wasteful, on the other hand we'll have to try very hard indeed to loose anything!!