How to fix broken upgrade to 3.1
There is no reference to ‘classes.php’ anywhere in the WP codebase, either in the 3.1 branch or in trunk. You probably have a modified version. Do a ‘svn stat’ and then a ‘svn diff’.
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Using source control with WordPress
Have a look at this older question: How to: Easily Move a WordPress Install from Development to Production?. It covers migration and deployment of WP installations. For your more immediate issue, do backups of your database. Use a backup plugin (WP-DB-Backup is what I use, find it on the WP plugins repository) to handle this … Read more
Updating a WordPress plugins breaks SVN
a simple way around this is to update the plugins by SVN from the plugin repository.
Subversion, github, etc.. version control systems/repositories
Dunc, glad you asked about this before it was too late for you. You have heard the right words. You are right, unfortunately the articles tutorials are not very much newbie friendly. Frist let me try to clear some terminology for you. The thing you need to manage your code and keep track of all … Read more
What CSS minifier does WP core use?
According the the Gruntfile.js in core, the minifier is grunt-contrib-cssmin – https://www.npmjs.com/package/grunt-contrib-cssmin
Managing updates when WordPress is in your own svn repo
Externals, definitely. Set up your own SVN repo, then make WP as an external in the repo. I put it into a /wp directory. You can access the WP SVN as an external here: http://core.svn.wordpress.org/ I tend to use trunk. You can use a branch, if you really, really want. Branches get auto updated with … Read more
Sync my svn repositories
Maybe the svn switch — relocate repository option can help you here: svn switch –relocate oldURL newURL . ( http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/re27.html ) But… a lot more options here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/580443/svn-one-working-copy-two-repositories
Can i do plugin commits directly from a plugin folder inside an installation using the Trunk SVN
I run a WordPress checkout of trunk, a branch, or a tag. This way I can switch WordPress versions easily: svn sw http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/trunk svn sw http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/3.1 In wp-content/plugins I have a trunk checkout for each of my plugins: cd wp-content/plugins svn co http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/stats/trunk/ stats I do my work on the stats plugin (updating the changelog … Read more
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 … Read more
Should I use SVN or Git?
I use Git for all my projects since it lets me work offline and that happens fairly often for me. Git can interface with SVN if you’d still like to use Git then push your plugins to WordPress.org. http://www.nkuttler.de/post/using-git-for-wordpress-development/ http://hakre.wordpress.com/2010/09/28/git-rocks/