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@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
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+*unreleased*
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+* Added :normalize_asset_timestamps option to deployment, defaulting to true, which allows asset timestamping to be disabled [John Trupiano]
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 *2.4.0 Preview Release #1* (2.3.101) June 5, 2008 
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 * Only make deploy:start, deploy:stop, and deploy:restart try sudo as :runner. The other sudo-enabled tasks (deploy:setup, deploy:cleanup, etc.) will now use the :admin_runner user (which by default is unset). [Jamis Buck]

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@@ -208,7 +208,9 @@ namespace :deploy do
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     symlinks to the shared directory for the log, system, and tmp/pids \
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     directories, and will lastly touch all assets in public/images, \
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     public/stylesheets, and public/javascripts so that the times are \
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-    consistent (so that asset timestamping works).
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+    consistent (so that asset timestamping works).  This touch process \
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+    is only carried out if the :normalize_asset_timestamps variable is \
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+    set to true, which is the default.
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   DESC
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   task :finalize_update, :except => { :no_release => true } do
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     run "chmod -R g+w #{latest_release}" if fetch(:group_writable, true)
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@@ -224,9 +226,11 @@ namespace :deploy do
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       ln -s #{shared_path}/pids #{latest_release}/tmp/pids
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     CMD
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-    stamp = Time.now.utc.strftime("%Y%m%d%H%M.%S")
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-    asset_paths = %w(images stylesheets javascripts).map { |p| "#{latest_release}/public/#{p}" }.join(" ")
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-    run "find #{asset_paths} -exec touch -t #{stamp} {} ';'; true", :env => { "TZ" => "UTC" }
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+    if fetch(:normalize_asset_timestamps, true)
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+      stamp = Time.now.utc.strftime("%Y%m%d%H%M.%S")
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+      asset_paths = %w(images stylesheets javascripts).map { |p| "#{latest_release}/public/#{p}" }.join(" ")
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+      run "find #{asset_paths} -exec touch -t #{stamp} {} ';'; true", :env => { "TZ" => "UTC" }
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+    end
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   end
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   desc <<-DESC