Tag: Subversion

First steps with Subversion’s new merge tracking

A while ago we succeeded in upgrading the Debian server where I keep many of my SVN repositories. (The server was running on “testing”, but we hadn't dared to upgrade it for a long time until it came time to make it “stable” again with Lenny.) On of the upgraded packages in Lenny is Subversion, now at 1.5.1, which means that I can finally start using subversions new merge tracking features. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 1 month ago, on January 30, 2010, at 02:01 | 7 comments

Replacing the full contents of a Subversion working (sub)dir

The annoyances that I suffered earlier today during the upgrade of a WordPress plugin made me turn to my favorite text-editor to create a simple script, svn-replace-dir: Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 2 months ago, on January 14, 2010, at 00:01 | No comments

Tracking WordPress in a Subversion vendor branch

Two months prior to writing a script to upgrade MediaWiki installations using Subversion vendor branches, I wrote something similar for WordPress. It's a little bit more limited and should really incorporate some of the improvements made for the MediaWiki version, but it worked fine so far: Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 6 months ago, on September 20, 2009, at 13:09 | 4 comments

Tracking MediaWiki in a Subversion vendor branch

Vendor branches are the proper™ way of merging upstream changes in your web application installations. In Subversion, managing vendor branches isn't so easy as it is in Git. Still, vendor branches make it much easier to track upstream. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 8 months ago, on July 20, 2009, at 14:07 | 1 comment

Styling XML SVN logs with CSS

My friend, Wiebe, keeps his website in Subversion. (Always keep your project files in version management or you'll be sorry.) He used to manually track the date with the last significant change in each file (because who cares about typos, right?). But, of course, he kept forgetting to update this when he actually made such changes. So, he decided that he wanted to publish the full SVN log for each page. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 9 months ago, on May 26, 2009, at 10:05 | 1 comment

Silent change in URLs of Ruby on Rails svn repository

I don't know why, but everything associated with Ruby on Rails seems to change all the time, without notice, or (in the case of URLs) without redirect. Read More »
By halfgaar, 1 year ago, on February 19, 2009, at 15:02 | 1 comment

Untangling WordPress’ core files from your local customizations

Since version 2.6, WordPress can be installed in its own directory, separate from your customizations and everthing. Needless to say, this makes upgrading a whole lot easier. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 1 year ago, on January 30, 2009, at 14:01 | No comments

Using diff and patch to upgrade web application installations

Update (July 30, 2008): I added information about making sure that the patch was successful. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 2 years ago, on March 13, 2008, at 21:03 | 2 comments

Upgraded Wordpress from 2.1 to 2.3.1

I'm now on WordPress 2.3.1. It was about time too; I was still on 2.1. Importing the tags from Ultimate Tag Warrior worked fine. Before upgrading and importing, I quickly patched my local version of WP with a little help from Subversion: Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 2 years ago, on November 26, 2007, at 00:11 | No comments

Replacing the trunk of a Subversion repository with a feature branch

For the Sicirec website, I use Subversion to track all changes. When working on big changes which take more than a day to implement, I follow the Feature Branches branching pattern. This pattern means that the trunk remains relatively stable and usable for everyday updates while I can climb in a feature branch whenever I want to work on the big new feature(s). Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 3 years ago, on February 25, 2007, at 13:02 | 3 comments