Question

I have a client with a subsidiary doing web development using ColdFusion to support a government website.

We’re having issues with devs not using source control. I realize there’s a whole bunch of political jazz associated with that that ought to be resolved, but I don’t have a stake in that game.

Is there anything resembling a “build manager” for IIS? That is to say, an app that will checkout code from SVN when told to, and deposit it in the appropriate directory of IIS? Normally I’d trust the dev team to do it, but most of them don’t seem to be even checking code into SVN, so I’ve been tasked with finding a technical workaround, if such is possible.

Answer 1

We use svnkit and have a batch file that can be setup as a scheduled task or linked into a webpage to run and it checks out the code into the relevant directory.

http://svnkit.com/