Tag: svn

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, 1 decade 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, 1 decade ago, on November 26, 2007, at 00:11 | Comments closed

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, 1 decade ago, on February 25, 2007, at 13:02 | 3 comments