Why to start doing continous deployment tommorrow

scottschulthess.com

If working directly on the production code counts, then I've been doing continuous integration for 10 years now. Honestly, being a single developer, I need reason to not do this. If it's something critical, I'll just copy the file to a test url, check if everything works and then rename it. I know it goes against the entire svn/git philosophy but I still don't see the benefit of making my coding process 2x more complex.

I did what you are doing for 3 years or so in the beginning.

Nothing particularly wrong with it.

The only reason I'd switch to using Version Control if I were you is that managing the file copies and different directories with features you are working on can be a hassle. You tend to have extraneous files lying around. Plus with VC you get nice histories on all the files.

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