Symlink the theme directory on Capistrano deploys

This effectively caches themes for faster and smaller deploys. After
the first deploy the themes will only need a Git update and all
deploys will share a common Git repositories for the themes.

2 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/config/deploy.rb b/config/deploy.rb
index f4a0b536a..d02488bfa 100644
--- a/config/deploy.rb
+++ b/config/deploy.rb
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ namespace :deploy do
       "#{release_path}/log" => "#{shared_path}/log",
       "#{release_path}/tmp/pids" => "#{shared_path}/tmp/pids",
       "#{release_path}/lib/acts_as_xapian/xapiandbs" => "#{shared_path}/xapiandbs",
+      "#{release_path}/lib/themes" => "#{shared_path}/themes",
     }
 
     # "ln -sf <a> <b>" creates a symbolic link but deletes <b> if it already exists
@@ -70,6 +71,7 @@ namespace :deploy do
     run "mkdir -p #{shared_path}/log"
     run "mkdir -p #{shared_path}/tmp/pids"
     run "mkdir -p #{shared_path}/xapiandbs"
+    run "mkdir -p #{shared_path}/themes"
   end
 end
 
diff --git a/doc/CHANGES.md b/doc/CHANGES.md
index b9406fac3..f4f75ce2b 100644
--- a/doc/CHANGES.md
+++ b/doc/CHANGES.md
@@ -7,6 +7,12 @@
 * HTML 'widgets' advertising requests can be displayed on other sites in iframes.
   If 'ENABLE_WIDGETS' is set to true in `general.yml` (the default is false), a link
   to the widget code will appear in the right hand sidebar of a request page.
+* Capistrano now caches themes (Henare Degan).
+
+## Upgrade Notes
+
+* Capistrano now caches themes in `shared/themes`. Run the `deploy:setup` task
+  to create the shared directory before making a new code deploy. 
 
 # Version 0.21