I download and configure WordPress for a development environment and a production environment. After it’s set up on one server we check it into a subversion repo and then go and check it out on the production server. Deployment complete. The trouble is when I have to update. I’m supposed to delete wp-includes and wp-admin … Read more
I had a feature branch of my trunk and was merging changes from my trunk into my branch periodically and everything was working fine. Today I went to merge the branch back down into the trunk and any of the files that were added to my trunk after the creation of my branch were flagged … Read more
I want to checkout a specific revision of a folder in Subversion using the command line. I don’t see an option for specifying the revision number in TortoiseProc.exe, TortoiseProc.exe /command:checkout <url> How do I get the revision I want? Is TortoiseProc.exe the right tool for what I want to do? 10 Answers 10
Locked. This question and its answers are locked because the question is off-topic but has historical significance. It is not currently accepting new answers or interactions. I’ve been using Subversion for a few years and after using SourceSafe, I just love Subversion. Combined with TortoiseSVN, I can’t really imagine how it could be any better. … Read more
I’ve been doing all my work in Git and pushing to GitHub. I’ve been very happy with both the software and the site, and I have no wish to change my working practices at this point. My PhD adviser is asking all students to keep their work in an SVN repository that’s hosted at the … Read more
I’ve heard in a few places that one of the main reasons why distributed version control systems shine, is much better merging than in traditional tools like SVN. Is this actually due to inherent differences in how the two systems work, or do specific DVCS implementations like Git/Mercurial just have cleverer merging algorithms than SVN? … Read more
I use my own svn repositories for all my development. I am looking for an easy way to keep the svn repository wordpress provides for my plugin synced up with my own internal repository. The desired end result being that when I commit a change to my own internal repository it gets duplicated automatically to … Read more
I have several virtual hosts setup, three of them pull files via SVN when needed(though only the trunk folder actually needs this), using SVN for other versions make for easy patch creation, or easy file replacement if i hack a core file. My question is whether i can checkin a plugin from directly inside the … Read more
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 … Read more
I’ve never used version control before, but I’m starting to work more collaboratively on WordPress plugins and themes and I think it would be a good idea to have a record of versions and updates. WordPress seems to favour SVN, but Git seems to be the new, cooler alternative. Which version control do you use … Read more