[wp-hackers] On Subversion and 2.5.x-alpha not being in Trunk

[Daniel Torreblanca]

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 4:51 PM, Daniel Torreblanca
<regulatethis at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 4:46 PM, John Blackbourn
>> In order to get round this I've tried using tags/2.5.x but this means
>> I have to do an svn switch each time a new release is announced.
>> Anyone updating a 2.3.x blog with Subversion can just use
>> /branches/2.3 as only the latest stable release goes in there.
>>
>> Anyone else using Subversion to update their 2.5.x blogs this way?
>> Which method are you using?
>>
>> John.
>
> Use the tags and "svn switch" when you want to upgrade to another release...
>
> e.g. http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.5.1

Sorry, didn't read the rest of your message.

What's wrong with "svn switch"? Do you just not want to put in a new URL?

Why would you do an "svn up" very often anyway, if you don't want new changes?