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

[Daniel Torreblanca]

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 4:46 PM, John Blackbourn
<johnbillion+wp at gmail.com> wrote:
> I use Subversion to update my WordPress installs. As it stands, with
> the 2.5.x development occuring under /branches/2.5 and not /trunk, it
> means if I have an install which uses
> svn.automattic.com/wordpress/branches/2.5 and do an svn up, I'll get
> the latest alpha instead of the latest stable release in that branch.
>
> 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