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Dave

22 Nov, 2015 09:43 PM

Hi There,

Just a question on deploying artifacts/application, does this deploy everything again or just the files that are new that were added into the artifact?

1. Support Staff 1 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 22 Nov, 2015 11:39 PM

   

   Hi Dave,

   It depends on deployment provider/method. Which one do you use?

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2. 2 Posted by Dave on 22 Nov, 2015 11:50 PM

   

   I deploy through the website (UI). So to give you some context. We have a couple of php websites that we need to deploy to a linux VM. These are deployed as a artifact using SFTP. This worked successfully using:

   7z a appveyortest.zip
   appveyor PushArtifact appveyortest.zip

   So my latest commit is adding a testdocument.txt to the repository. A build happens i.e. compress everything again.

   Is there any way of setting things up to just deploy new files?

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3. 3 Posted by Dave on 23 Nov, 2015 01:16 AM

   

   So to summarise, once we have completed the initial build / deployment, each subsequent build / deployment should be the latest commit and only include the files that have changed. Rather than redeploying everything again.

   I'm not sure what config / set up i need to use for this.

   Thanks

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4. Support Staff 4 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 23 Nov, 2015 04:09 AM

   

   I see. I'm afraid there is no built-in support for incremental updates in AppVeyor. Web Deploy provider is able to deploy updated files only, but entire application should be packaged every build anyway.

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5. Ilya Finkelshteyn closed this discussion on 25 Aug, 2018 02:02 AM.