First of all I have a problem I need to admit to you all.  My name is Derek Bonner and I am a command line junkie.  What is a command line junkie?  Well it is someone who needs the sweet kiss of a terminal to get the day going.  Nothing like firing up PuTTy and logging into a server with no X window system and getting things done.

As mentioned in David’s previous post, there is git usage in our current web development process.  It all started when Dan pointed me to a video post detailing some of the finer points about how git actually works.  The nerd in me loved the way it functioned and its decentralize nature.  To finish it off there were a slew of command line arguments I could learn.  I was sold.

My previous web development was the very bad practice of directly editing the file I was working on and then checking it live in the browser.  Fast and it worked well because I didn’t really have any traffic but Gaslamp is a bit different; It needed to be always working, not sometimes or after I finally fixed a feature. Always.

After crawling the web I found a setup I liked. The workflow over at joemaller.com that resonated with the way I would like to do things.  Sadly we have no second server that is constantly up to be our hub.  Instead we use gitosis to create our hub.  Gitosis provides the back-end and permissions to host multiple git repositories on a single shell account.  From a shell user which runs the webpage can be our prime repository that will pull changes.  The joemaller workflow has some details that I had to tweak to be used with the virtual repository  setup.  Overall I am very satisfied with the process and in my next article I will detail the steps I too to set this up including some tasty bits about SSH with my best practices using PuTTy.