[wp-testers] release/svn question

[John Joseph Bachir]

On Wed, 28 Dec 2005, Hisashi T Fujinaka wrote:

> Now that 2.0 is out, I want to quit tracking the svn "head" and stick 
> with the release. I'm only familiar with cvs, and cvs-ish policies. Most 
> projects I've been on tag releases. Some branch the release and only 
> commit critical fixes to the branch, allowing you to stay "current" with 
> only what's required.
>
> I'm having a hard time getting my head to work the svn way, and I'm also 
> unsure of how wordpress release policy. Is there a way to do this?

svn does not have true tags, but there is a convention that allows for the 
same functionality, with perhaps some added nicities.

to get a given tag, you checkout or export .../.../tags/<tagnumber>

so to get wordpress 2.0 from the repository, you do

   svn export http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.0

Does that answer your question?

John
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