How do you guys use Subversion with wordpress?

Question

I use subversion with my websites. Up until now this has meant creating a new repo for each of my sites. However this is wholly inefficient as it means me lugging around the whole wordpress source for each of the sites.

It also has meant that I have to copy plugins between repos and thus duplicate the code each time.

So what I wanted to do was have a repo which only really contained my theme file (and possibly other site-specific directories such as site-specific plugins). This would then have a link to the tagged wordpress repository for the wordpress version I would be building against and a link to my other shared plugin repos, so that in order to release or deploy for testing I would only have to do a svn checkout svn://path/to/site/repo and it would download the whole wordpress repo, all my plugins and all the site-specific stuff too.

Is there any way to do this? Or is this a bad idea? Is there an easier/better way to do this at all?

How do others do it?

Answer 1

I have one multi-site setup with WP pulled down from SVN, to update all sites all I have to do is the svn sw ... command and visit the upgrade page in wp-admin.

If all the sites are on the same server I'd recommend looking into multi-site.

Answer 2

Use NetBeans... When you check out a copy from SVN, you can directly use it as source files for your project, and at the same time sync it with your server. NetBeans keeps a neat track of new files, changed files, you can compare revisions, commit, update etc. It's awesome, no command prompt needed (except for checkout/export/import which you do from command line/terminal).