[wp-hackers] Running trunk on the open web

[Andy Skelton]

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 1:47 AM, Dan Phiffer <dan at phiffer.org> wrote:
> Let's assume I only hit 'svn up' after doing some sanity checks on a local
> machine. Is running your site from trunk a bad idea?

That depends on what is at risk: the cost of downtime, an exploited
vulnerability, corruption, etc. The list can not answer that for you.
:-)

There is an alternative that still allows you to use Subversion for
installation and upgrades without running trunk: svn switch. Use that
to upgrade as soon as a new version is tagged. You can also switch to
and from trunk with the same command, with the caveat that database
upgrades are not reversed.

Cheers,
Andy