Updating Wordpress via SVN
Updating Wordpress via SVN is about a million times easier than updating it the old way.
The one problem I have with that guide is that it directs users to use the trunk version of Wordpress from SVN - this is in fact very dangerous and can cause all sorts of pain.
I would instead recommend users
$ svn co http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.0.7
and then when a new version comes out,
$ svn switch http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/newversion
Granted, this takes a little more time and thought than just using trunk, but it’s well worth it!
It’d be even better if the Wordpress SVN had a stable/release tag for users to use, and as such I have opened a trac ticket requesting this. (I’m not very familiar with trac, but it seemed easy enough.)
Seth scrawled,
I use the trunk/ builds simply because that’s the reason I use WordPress from SVN– to test the latest bleeding goodies. Your purposes for using SVN lie more on the side of convenience and less on the path of testing. It works better for you so that’s what counts
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