I am developing in windows environment and my production server has linux. My goal was updating production version from my local machine, but run in to problems with windows&ssh.
So now my backup plan is just doing it locally on my server and that is ok. This allows me to do it easily via ssh from different workstations.
What I am now wondering is my build.xml file, which is included with my project in svn. Do I really need to make initial export just to run my build.xml which then does actual build? Or should I just separate my build.xml from app? How this kind of local build should be done?
I would keep the build file with the app for portability, future proofing and versioning reasons. I also would keep the svn export step it ensures a clean and consistent state to run your build from.