[wp-hackers] first time SVN user, first time adding plugin to directory

[Andy Charrington-Wilden]

That's great thank you! I'll go through that tutorial. 

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On 6 Jul 2011, at 16:48, Eric Mann <eric at eam.me> wrote:

> I published a tutorial a few weeks ago that walks you through the steps to
> creating and committing a plugin complete with screenshots from TortoiseSVN.
> If you're on a Mac, I have it on good authority that you can use SCPlugin
> instead and follow the exact same steps.
> 
> http://mindsharestrategy.com/2011/how-to-publish-a-wordpress-plugin-subversion/
> 
> Basically, you develop on trunk until you're ready to release, then you use
> SVN to create your tag - don't try to move things to the /tags folder
> manually, because you might accidentally copy the .svn subdirectories ...
> and that can break things.
> 
> On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 8:46 AM, Tommy Leunen <tom at tommyleunen.com> wrote:
> 
>> What software do you use to commit your stuff on SVN ?
>> 
>> If you use TortoiseSVN, there is a feature "Branch/Tag" which allows you to
>> easy create a new tag of your trunk.
>> 
>> So you have to commit your trunk folder, then create a new tag by clicking
>> on "Branch/Tag" in the right click menu on trunk, and that's it.
>> 
>> Anyway, if your tag 0.1 is wrong and can't delete it, you can also create a
>> new tag, and specify into your readme that there is a new tag version.
>> 
>> 2011/7/6 Andy Charrington <andycharrington at gmail.com>
>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> I have got my first plugin ready to go and it has been approved. However
>> i
>>> am now completely flumoxed by how to actually add it to the directory! I
>>> have not used SVN before and am struggling with it TBH. I have added my
>>> plugin to /trunk and then tried various ways of copying it to /tags/0.1
>>> none
>>> of which worked and now i cant delete /tags/0.1... ARGH!
>>> 
>>> I am getting all sorts of weird errors now. I believe i have well and
>> truly
>>> messed it up. I did read through all i could find on this but the Wp site
>>> inparticular seems to assume you have knowledge of SVN which i dont.
>> Could
>>> someone please point me in the right direction? I just want to know how
>> to
>>> get my plugin in the directory! It shouldnt be this hard!
>>> 
>>> Also is there a way i can start again with my repository? I would rather
>>> start again once i know what im doing.
>>> 
>>> Did anyone else struggle with this?? Its made me feel really stupid!
>>> 
>>> Thank you
>>> 
>>> Andy
>>> 
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