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

Andy Charrington-Wilden andycharrington at gmail.com
Wed Jul 6 16:03:22 UTC 2011


Yeah I looked at that but couldn't find the branch/tag option. Could you tell me how I add a tag with versions?

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On 6 Jul 2011, at 16:58, Rafael Poveda - RaveN <raven at mecus.es> wrote:

> I'm using Versions (http://www.versionsapp.com/) and it's just awesome. 
> 
> --
> Rafael Poveda <RaveN> 
> 
> El miércoles 6 de julio de 2011 a las 17:56, Andy Charrington-Wilden escribió:
> 
>> That's great thank you! I'll go through that tutorial. 
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>> On 6 Jul 2011, at 16:48, Eric Mann <eric at eam.me (mailto: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 (mailto: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 (mailto: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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