A full deployment copies all assets from the asset management server to a target site. A full deployment comprises two steps:
All assets are deleted from the target site.
All assets from projects that are currently and previously deployed to the target site are written to that site.
Note: A full deployment to a one-off target only includes assets from checked-in projects. Assets from deployed but still-active projects are excluded from the deployment.
On a site with many assets, full deployments can be time consuming and resource intensive. Initiate a full deployment in order to refresh all site assets, especially when they are modified directly or are corrupt.
You can limit the scope of a full deployment in two ways:
The SelectiveDeleteVFSService lets you specify which file assets to delete from the local file system during full deployment. You can use this VFS in order to limit the scope of full deployment to JSP files only, and protect other file asset types from deletion.
An item descriptor’s
deployableattribute can be set to false in order to exclude specific repository item types from deployment:<attribute name=deployable value="false"/>This attribute setting must be consistent in the versioned and target site repositories; otherwise, attempts to deploy assets of this type fail.
