On one of my WordPress installs, I used SVN to do the initial install. I thought that this would help upgrades…and it did for awhile. I tried it with the latest release 3.0.1, and this method did not work. (I perform an svn update, run the upgrade.php script and the upgrade.php returns an error.)
So now I want to convert my SVN installed WordPress to a regular one. What is the best way to go about this?
Or do I need to install 3.0.1 and then import my data over?
Simply stop running svn commands, and/or delete all the folders named “.svn” in your WordPress folder and all child folders, which removes the Subversion metadata. There is no difference between the WordPress 3.0.1 release obtained using Subversion or as a tarball from the WP downloads page, save for the .svn folders in the former. WordPress doesn’t know it was installed via Subversion.
I might recommend asking another question explaining what went wrong during your svn update to 3.0.1, so that we might help you fix that problem. I have been upgrading via Subversion for many releases to great success.
