The limits of VCS (the "no good Perl jobs"/"no good Perl programmers" myth)

[Adrian Howard]

On 9 Aug 2006, at 14:39, Tielman de Villiers wrote:
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>
> How about using "cp" for release management? So you use a VCS for
> development, but when deploying the code to a staging/production
> environment, you tar it up, copy it over and and untar in the
> deployment directory.
>
> Good, bad or scary?  (Presuming a trusted and private network, so
> security is not the issue here.)

Rollback?

Adrian