<div dir="ltr"><div>Interesting...I thought more folks would be using SVN but it seems that many use WP's built-in updater and several use Git. Neat. I/we have been thinking of switching from SVN to Git. Perhaps this rebuild of the dev server is the time to get on with it.<br>
<br>Thanks all for the feedback.<br><br></div>-Tim<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div>Tim Thorp | Web Developer<br>Direct: 401.863.2798 | Fax: 401.863.7908<br>Brown University Office of Continuing Education / CIS Web Services<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Nick Weaver <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jnweaver@wisc.edu" target="_blank">jnweaver@wisc.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>To add to this, we manage our Wordpress sites in Git as well. We include Wordpress's official Git repo (which syncs against their SVN every 15 minutes) as a submodule in our projects, referencing their version tags.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Here's the Wordpress git repository: <a href="https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress" target="_blank">https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress</a></div><div><br></div><br><div>
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<font style="font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica" face="Helvetica" size="3">Nick Weaver</font></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-size:medium">Director, Web Services</span></p>
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<br><div><div>On Sep 26, 2013, at 9:20 AM, Ken Newquist <<a href="mailto:newquisk@lafayette.edu" target="_blank">newquisk@lafayette.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><br>On Sep 25, 2013, at 8:50 AM, Thorp, Timothy wrote:<br>
<br><blockquote type="cite">Hi. I am a bit new to this list but am writing to discuss methods of maintaining the system including its themes and plugins. <br></blockquote><br>We're a git shop, so we import the SVN repos into git and then go from there. In git we use a main repo for the wordpress code, plus submodules for individual plugins and themes. It required some work to get the import set up, but we found it works very well for our purposes (especially since all of our custom code and themes is managed in git as well). It'd be happy to put you in touch with our git guru if you'd like to know more.<br>
<br><blockquote type="cite">Along the lines of ongoing maintenance, there is the question of whether to use JetPack or not and I also just discovered a neat wordpress command-line interface app at <a href="http://wp-cli.org/" target="_blank">http://wp-cli.org/</a> and wonder if anyone out there has been using it.<br>
</blockquote><br>We found the CLI to be very limited, but then again, we were hoping for something along the lines of Drupal's drush.<br><br><br>Ken Newquist<br>Director, Web Applications Development<br>Lafayette College<br>
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