Is there a faster way to git-svn clone a wordpress plugin from the subversion repository?

Yep, you can pass the initial revision from which to start scanning: git svn clone -s -r387893 http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/your-plugin/ You can hunt down that revision by using this command: svn log http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/your-plugin/ The last line shows the earliest revision. Source: http://teleogistic.net/2011/05/revisiting-git-github-and-the-wordpress-org-plugin-repository/

Get all branch names in SVN

svn help ls If you’ll use the URL of the repository branches root with verbose output, you’ll get something like this: The 3+4+5 field in gawk will give you the branch’s last-changed date. svn help log Slightly more complex and noisy output with a single advantage: a readable date, | grep -v “|” for excluding separation line, … Read more

Cannot connect to repo with TortoiseSVN

You need to determine whether this is a problem with TortoiseSVN, your Subversion repository, or your network connection. First of all, check your URL. I never used User-Friendly SVN, so I don’t know what it does to the Apache httpd configuration. However, the standard Apache configuration for multiple repositories is usually http://<server>/svn/<module> and not http://<server>/svn/usvn/<module>. … Read more

SVN reverse merge?

If your repo was in pristine condition at revision 497, then I think you’re correct, you need to do a: That merge command will only change files in your working copy, so remember to also commit the changes to update HEAD in the repo. After you do the merge, followed by the commit, try comparing … Read more