WordPress through Subversion

I have to say, I’m liking WordPress’s install-with-subversion documentation. This will make it a lot easier to upgrade… (update, 11.05: well, theoretically…) (update, 11.12: you have to remember to upgrade the database once you’ve installed) In short, making your WordPress installation be a Subversion checkout seems like a great idea to me. It works easily (the WP people have instructions on how to convert your existing WP installation into a checkout of Subversion), they’re careful about tagging each new release (so you can upgrade just when releases happen; you don’t have to track the unstable bleeding-edge of WordPress), and when a new release happens, upgrading is as easy as svn switch http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/NEW_VERSION/ followed by visiting http://server/wordpress/wp-admin/upgrade.php, and upgrades don’t come much easier than that, if you’re a techie like me. Good work, WordPress team.

5 thoughts on “WordPress through Subversion

  1. [...] Aq noticed a slightly easier way: use Subversion. Now I can upgrade WordPress with a simple svn up, [...]

  2. Yes, it works great! I upgraded 10 blogs last week to the latest version.

  3. [...] subversion. Il existe un moyen de «convertir» une installation existante à la version svn selon ce blogue, mais je viens de passer une demie heure à faire des manipulations dans un peut tous les sens afin [...]

  4. [...] read a few months back that Stuart Langridge was using Subversion to keep his WordPress up-to-date and I thought: “that’s clever” and didn’t do anything about [...]

  5. hospital says:

    thank you very much

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