[wp-testers] SVN for plugins?

[Tris Hussey]

I played around with plugins.svn.wordpress.org and kept getting a slew of
errors trying to check out plugins from the command line. I did a little
more poking and it sounds like the public svn plugin pull is
svn.wp-plugins.org. I got that to work quite well. My goal is to create
either a repository to be able to deploy client sites with wp and the core
plugins I like or a script to check out (and do the same).

I was playing with using svn propedit svn:externals to do the pull and it
works almost exactly how I want. The one thing I can't figure out is how to
 checkout WP into the root of the working copy directory instead of a sub
directory.

For example ... if my working copy is in foo (and I start out with an empty
repository to take advantage of using externals) the only thing I could get
to work is to have WP check out into foo/wordpress when I just want the
equiv. of using "svn co http://core.svn.wordpress.org/tags/2.9.2/ ."

I think it's all in the externals properties are defined I'm sure. If there
are any SVN gurus who know how I should write that externals line/call, I'd
greatly appreciate it. Otherwise I think I'm going to write a shell script
to (essentially) do the same thing just using repeated checkouts.

Playing with SVN is far easier than bashing through the last bit of writer's
blog, let me tell you.

Tris

On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 1:18 AM, Tris Hussey <tris at trishussey.com> wrote:

> Yeah no kidding. I started checking out the repository with svnX and I
> thought my connection stalled with all the plugins there. It's pretty
> amazing how much is there.
>
> Just from a functional standpoint, is [plugin-name]/trunk/ the current
> released build or one to be released? I see that each plugin has the
> standard trunk, branches, tags setup like the the WP repository. What I'm
> thinking about is making a repository that pulls the updated builds for the
> key plugins I use from the main repository. Since I don't want to have to
> keep using svn switch to change from tag to tag, I'd like see if I can do it
> with one url per plugin.
>
> Cheers, T
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 12:41 AM, Brian Layman <Brian at thecodecave.com>wrote:
>
>> > Danke. :D ... oh such fun.
>> > Tris
>>
>> The Plugin Repository at
>>
>> http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/
>>
>> is a wonderful world of learning and inspiration..
>>
>> Want to know how to do something? With this repository checked out, you
>> have
>> an encyclopedia of examples at your fingertips. I wish I knew of a way to
>> check out the whole thing without getting every single tag there ever was,
>> but even that, with a good comparison tool, shows you how to fix security
>> holes.
>>
>> Start it checking out before going to bed one night. Hours of fun will
>> ensue...
>>
>> -brian layman
>>
>>
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Tris Hussey
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cell: 604-319-6765 -- Skype: tris.hussey
http://www.trishussey.com/