Comments on: Beanstalk Update: Incidents, Releases, Upgrades

By: LW

LW — Thu, 28 May 2009 21:59:05 +0000

Thanks for your hard work guys; it really shows.

By: James Constable

James Constable — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:14:50 +0000

It’d be nice if it was possible to hook up some form of automatic ’svn update’ on a remote server as part of the releases functionality.

By: db

db — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 07:02:11 +0000

Yes, you guys are doing good work, but still doesn’t work as advertised… I’m getting “successful” replies when in fact it was not successful.

By: Dima Sabanin

Dima Sabanin — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 11:02:16 +0000

@Vince: To be honest “Deploy from scratch” option was a last-minute addition, expect it to be redesigned in some very near future. And no, it will not erase all files on your server, it will just assume that server is empty and try to upload changesets starting from revision 1.

This is not obvious, and we’ve failed to communicate the purpose of this option. We’ll fix it very soon.

@Nick: thanks!

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:52:57 +0000

Thanks for your hard work guys; it really shows.

By: Vince Stross

Vince Stross — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:34:39 +0000

When deploying a revision, there is a checkbox for “Deploy from Scratch” that was not covered in this post. What exactly does that do? Will it just wipe the entire folder and reupload the latest revision?

If we are releasing to a production environment, it would be nice to know this since there will be a period of downtime when files are not available while they’re uploading.