On 09/26/11 16:01, Grant wrote: > I'd like to hire a freelancer to work on my website. I don't want to > provide access to all of my code, but instead only the particular file > or files being worked on. Does anyone know of a development framework > that would help facilitate that sort of thing? Would no shell access > along with restricted SFTP access be the simplest, safest, most > effective way to go?
Why not just send him the stuff he should be working on? He can run his own Apache/PHP/whatever on his development machine. When he's done, he can send you a tarball of the site files and maybe a SQL dump if you're using a database. That's the easiest one-off solution. If you're looking for something more permanent, another idea is to have a "public" git repo somewhere while the developers all work on their own workstations. SQL changes can be made via numbered migrations, e.g., 001-create_users_table.sql 002-create_nodes_table.sql 003-disregard_that_drop_users_table.sql and devs can push everything to the git repo, as long as it's a fast-forward (so they can't trash the repo history). Once you're ready to move something live, an admin logs in to the production box, does a `git pull`, and then runs the migrations or makefile.
