There are tools to solve this problem. And these tools are not source version control. In my company we setup the following workflow : -> commit code -> code

There are tools to solve this problem. And these tools are not source version control. In my company we setup the following workflow : -> commit code -> code is built and tested using Jenkins -> generated artifacts are stored on Nexus On top of that, daily we deploy everything on an internal pypi (we do mostly Python). Deploying the code in production is then not much more than running a script that easy_install everything from this internal pypi... [edit] typo