Does anyone use file comparison software (Ex. Beyond Compare) on production server to deploy code?

Why would you do that?

@Doehl to make sure that a dev does not replace the code that someone else put on production for debugging/hotfix. That's what I can think of. :D

Why would you debug on a production server, or even create hotfix there.

At my work you are fired before you even hit enter, if you even try any of that. We have even closed out developers from accessing production.

@Doehl @Ronald lol. I have no idea. But it's what I have to do no matter how weird it sounds.

I should say that the company, did something like your process before my time, when they outsourced to Indonesia. (Nothing ever worked when they deployed) Here they never found a solution that worked. Simply because they never remembered to put hotfix on development servers.

So my advice would be to always add hotfix also to dev. So you don't overwrite them.

Doesn't everything that go to prod have to pass through an automated validation process ?
It should !

@willol (un)fortunately, there is no such thing here.