Ok, so CI is the best approach, but is there a way or an approach that just uses SVN? can you use a tag and update a test server via an update, or do you have to use export and export over the existing code? Is there an easy way to do this where the test server code can be a working copy checked out of SVN, or does it need to be just code and use an export? I don't know if we here have the resources (mainly time) to research and implement a CI, so thought i'd first check how we might use SVN. Our current process is someone copies the code from the checked out working copy which is dev and pastes the files into the test server area. I don't think this is a good way to do it at all, especially since i thought that copying working copy files would bring in the copy the hidden .svn folder, don't think that is what we want.
If you don't have any good ideas about how to use SVN to do what a CI will do, no problem, no harm in asking :) thanks Dan
