What is your favorite web app deployment workflow with SVN?

Question

We are currently using a somewhat complicated deployment setup that involves a remote SVN server, 3 SVN branches for DEV, STAGE, and PROD, promoting code between them through pa

Answer 1

Three branches just sounds like extra work.

Environmental differences can be handled by having different versions of the relevant files in the trunk. i.e. database.yml & database.yml.prod. The deployment process should be environmentally aware and simply copy the per-environment files over the default ones.