How to use Subversion properly with WordPress, need help…

  • Heya,
    So I’m a big fan of Subversion. But the problem I have when using it with WordPress, is that once a site goes live, and users begin to make database related changes and upload files, those files aren’t synchronized with my repository. Thus defeating the purpose of SVN.

    Does anyone know how to overcome this? Maybe a plugin that’s out there or a way to utilize PHP to accomplish this?

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  • When you say “my repository” do you mean a local repository? And what’s the use case here – using SVN for plugin development, or for your WP installation itself?

    I don’t have time to look through the checklist, but maybe this free-or-paid SVN client has some kind of polling synchronization feature?

    -WCC

    Thread Starter Spencer Hill

    (@ws5f3dj7)

    Yes, I’m referring to my local repository (I may be using the wrong word there) where I make my changes to files before committing them and updating the live site.

    My purpose for using SVN is this: when I get a new client, I build a custom theme for them based of WordPress. Once their site is live, they and their users make changes that obviously affect the database and they upload files.

    My problem is that I don’t know how to keep the live site files synchronized with the ones I’m working on. Unless I can do an SVN commit from the live server? Thus placing all the modified files back into SVN?

    Then the second problem is that I don’t know how to keep all the database files synchronized.

    Thanks!

    Hmmmm… Sorry, I don’t understand much about these things (having only used SVN as a single developer on a single WordPress site). Did you check out that SVN client I suggested?

    I remember when I was learning about Toroise SVN there was mention of “merging” functions that seemed to be meant for integrating the development work of multiple programmers. Have you read about that?

    -WCC

    Thread Starter Spencer Hill

    (@ws5f3dj7)

    Hey WCC – I didn’t checkout that SVN client but only because that’s not really what I’m asking. I don’t have any problems running SVN or working with it. It’s technical to how SVN interacts with my WordPress site where I’m stuck. So I guess I need a greater level of expertise from someone on how to overcome the issue. But seriously thank you for your reply!

    No prob.

    Good luck!

    -WCC

    Just found this post while looking for the same recommendation. I did find this blog entry which seems like it would work well:

    https://benlancaster.wordpress.com/2009/02/12/wordpress-update-svn-vendor-branch/

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