When working with WordPress core, you often have to go back and forth through commits, scroll or search through revision logs, switch between tags and branches and so on. This can be annoying with a slow Internet connection and impossible without a connection at all, but what if you’re working on a core patch on a plane or a submarine?
Subversion 1.7 on Ubuntu 12.04
Ubuntu’s default packages ship Subversion 1.6 with the 12.04 distribution. This is annoying if you want to use the newer Subversion 1.7, without upgrading your OS, and especially if you’re dealing with newer working copies: svn: The path '.' appears to be part of a Subversion 1.7 or greater working copy. Please upgrade your Subversion client to use this working copy. Turns out...
WordPress Workflow Tips: Using Subversion Externals for Plugins, Themes and Core
I’m pretty sure most of you are familiar with version control, and that it’s best practice to start each new project in version control, and not “add it sometime later.” Version control will help you manage changes to your code, and have revisions which you can easily roll back to. Although my favorite version control software is Git, today we’ll talk about...
Restore A Subversion Repository From Backup Files
This is a quickie and yeh, I don’t like Subversion either, and if you’re still using that consider Git or Mercurial. Anyways, I had an old Subversion server where four SVN repositories were hosted for quite some time and a few days ago I decided to nuke that in order to reduce our costs. Thank god I created a simple tar -czf of the whole directory and I know it’s not the correct...
The Web Development Cycle Explained
If you’ve ever been to software development classes you probably already know about the software development cycle: Pre-alpha, Alpha, Beta, Release candidate (Gamma, Delta), Release to Marketing and finally, General Availability. Well it goes pretty much the same in the web development world, except that there are a few other parties involved in the whole process, and today, in the dynamic...
Thinking Subversion
Since I had to clean up all the mess in my SVN repo today, I’d like to show you some nifty tricks ;) First of all, I encourage all Windows users to forget about TortoiseSVN and all the other GUI versions, cause there’s nothing better than the good old plain-console subversion client. Just add it to your %PATH% system variable and you’ll be able to use svn commands from anywhere...