My GIT

This post will explain how I use git to versioncontrol my different projects.

Usually I have my websites organised like this

/home/sites/DOMAIN

then every domain contains

• /bin/ - needed for virtualenv
• /git/ - here I host my git repository
• /include/ - again only because of virtualenv
• /lib/ - same here
• /PROJECTNAME/ - here I usually have the site-app (which is a clone of the above git directory)
• /src/ - for every third party package which is used, may it be python, a C library or whatever

On my PC I usually have things organised like this

~/projects/websites/projectname

Now what I really like is that I have 2 levels my code has to pass before it enters production.

1. We have the local level on my PC, where testing happens
2. After we pushed the code to the server, I can quickly clone it to another folder and do a runserver to test production settings. Really, you can never be sure that your code works 100% on another machine, although unittests help a lot to simplify testing.

Then I pull the code from inside the /home/sites/DOMAIN/PROJECTNAME/ directory, restart the fcgi server.. et voila!

I feel very comfortable with this way and I think I might not change this in a long long time. However I'm very open to see other structures or usages. Anyway what I have to admit is that I did not yet look into is fabric, which I think is definitly missing in the staging process.