How to convert a WordPress install under SVN to one that is not?

Simply stop running svn commands, and/or delete all the folders named “.svn” in your WordPress folder and all child folders, which removes the Subversion metadata. There is no difference between the WordPress 3.0.1 release obtained using Subversion or as a tarball from the WP downloads page, save for the .svn folders in the former. WordPress doesn’t know it was installed via Subversion.

I might recommend asking another question explaining what went wrong during your svn update to 3.0.1, so that we might help you fix that problem. I have been upgrading via Subversion for many releases to great success.

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