Web Deploy... equivalent

[Jamster]

Deploying web projects with sourcegear vault is a real hassle, is there an equivalent of the SourceSafe 'Web Deploy' command, that copies updated text files to the web site?

[sterwill]

Right now Vault doesn't have this feature, but it's often requested, and is planned for a future version. You may want to use Vault's command-line client to automate the process, instead of using the GUI client (if that's what you are currently doing). The command-line client can be used to get a repository folder to a non-working disk folder, which won't include any _sgvault data. Then use a tool like xcopy, FTP, or rsync to copy the files to your web server.

[montek]

I would like to second this request. I have an ASP.NET team as well as an ASP web team. The .NET team is using Vault, but my ASP team is still using SourceSafe only because it's a complete bear to do web farm deployments with the Vault.

A tool that I would find EXTREMELY VALUABLE for Vault is to be able to get a version of a folder/file to a place that is NOT the working directory. That would help tremendously. Then, if you just added the ability to specify multiple targets, the "web deploy" feature is complete.

[dan]

A tool that I would find EXTREMELY VALUABLE for Vault is to be able to get a version of a folder/file to a place that is NOT the working directory. That would help tremendously. Then, if you just added the ability to specify multiple targets, the "web deploy" feature is complete.

This is available in Vault. From the GUI client, change the "To" field in the Get Latest dialog, and it will retrieve the folder/files to a non-working directory. In the command line client, use the -destpath parameter with the Get command.

[mikep]

One possible way around this is to install the Vault Client in your production environment and set the Working Folder to your web root, then get latest, etc.

[Jamster]

Whilst we are talking about this feature request, I would find it very useful to be able to select which file types to deploy, when deploying to the web server I only want to deploy .aspx, .ascx etc files.

[dan]

fwiw, the command line client does a command called GETWILDCARD, which gets files, allowing for regular expressions on the filenames.

[eric]

Any word on the priority of this request. It is the only thing keeping me from being able to use the product. Web farms are a hassle to manage without the feature.

[dan]

We haven't yet decided on whether it will be in the next major release.

In the meantime, doing a Get Latest to a non-working folder (from either the GUI or the command line client) can be used a work-around.

And, of course, we'll add your vote to the feature request.

[jkewley]

If you haven't tried the free utility UnleashIt, you should. It has a Vault plugin that will get latest, build, and then deploy via ftp, file share, or to a zip file:

http://www.eworldui.net/UnleashIt/

[zumafan]

If you haven't tried the free utility UnleashIt, you should. It has a Vault plugin that will get latest, build, and then deploy via ftp, file share, or to a zip file:

http://www.eworldui.net/UnleashIt/

Have you seen the Vault plugin lately? I remember seeing it but I can't find it now. Hopefully it is being updated for the 3.x releases of Vault!

[jkewley]

Hopefully it is being updated for the 3.x releases of Vault!

I'm still a 2.0.6 user of Vault (couldn't see a compelling reason to upgrade). The Vault plugin for UnleashIt comes with full source. I don't think upgrading the included plugin to work with 3.0 should be too difficult if you have a good grasp of the Vault APIs. I've written a couple of UnleashIt plugins from scratch, and they're really easy.

Might be a good thing for Jeremy Sheeley to do in his blog

[jeremy_sg]

Might be a good thing for Jeremy Sheeley to do in his blog

Yes, I need more work to do.

I'll put it on the list of things that I will do when I have time. Thanks for pointing this out. In future versions, we want to try really hard to give people who build on Vault more warning as to what will change and how they can update their code to compensate.

[jamesmoore]

If you haven't tried the free utility UnleashIt, you should. It has a Vault plugin that will get latest, build, and then deploy via ftp, file share, or to a zip file:

http://www.eworldui.net/UnleashIt/

Has anyone wrote a Vault 3.x plug-in for UnleashIt yet?

I'm still using the SOS Collab edition.. ...mainly because the programmers I support use the Web Deploy feature all the time (for ColdFusion based projects). Does the Vault 3.0 version have any new support for the Web Deploy feature?

I've thought about creating a .NET website, that would run the command line utility to "deploy" the websites.. but I'm hoping there is an easier way of doing it. I havn't tested the UnleashIt program.. will this provide similar functionality of the Web Deploy feature? Does anyone have any personal experiences using this program with Vault?

[montek]

Nope, still no web deploy feature built in as far as I can tell. Until it does, I can't get our public development team to convert from SourceSafe because deployment is such a pain.