Advice on setting a PHP dev environment on a mac with GIT

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Hi guys,

I’m about to set up a PHP dev environment on my mac (Leopard) and going to be using git as my version control, I’m not familiar with a mac setup or git so I’m looking forward to getting stuck in!

I think I’m just going to use the “Sites” directory as my localhost and the location where I deploy from to my server?

Sites/mysite.co.uk
Sites/anothersite.co.uk
Sites/anothersite.com

Would I simply initialize a git repository for each site in the same directory i.e. Sites/mysite.co.uk/git/

Or is it best to have a completely separate code repository that I develop in;

SOMEPATH/git/mysite.co.uk
SOMEPATH/git/anothersite.co.uk
SOMEPATH/git/anothersite.com

and then deploy/sync from here to the Sites directory and use localhost as my stage before deployment??

How to others do it any advice would be great, I want to get this right from the start

Thanks in advance

Crabby

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One would generally think “Seperate projects, seperate repository”. If you edit a file in anothersite.com, mysite.co.uk doesnt care about it.

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StarLion, thank you for the reply, do have a dev environment on a mac, if so, would you mind me asking how you have it set up?

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I dont actually have a dev enviroment on a mac, but it wouldnt be much different really…

I dont personally use version controlling, but that said i dont often find a need to go backwards - debugging is done on my local enviroment (*AMP(P)), and then deployed when it’s done…