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Is there any good way to use SVN for uploads directory?
We just got our servers set up with SVN which works great. Wordpress upgrades and plugin installations are managed manually, which all goes through SVN as well, but I can't work out a good way to ...
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How to Upgrade and Deploy WordPress Install as a Git Submodule? [closed]
I am using a WordPress directory struture similar to Mark Jaquith's WordPress Skeleton, which has WordPress in a separate directory from the content as a submodule:
/content
/wp
/local-config.php
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How can I keep the content of my pages version controlled?
We have a WordPress-based website that provides documentation to our REST API. Since our API is constantly changing, so is the documentation. However, we would like to keep the documentation version ...
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Any way to create a revision of a post ONLY with a new button in the Meta Box?
Quite sure there isn't a way baked in to do this, but anyone have any ideas on how I would get something like this done? I want to turn autorevisions off and ONLY have a revision created when a button ...
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WordPress and Git: How does Git interact with your IDE? [closed]
Everyone has been telling me I should use Git. What I don't understand is how git interacts with your IDE. Say i'm developing on Dreamweaver, and I switch branches, my IDE isn't going to reflect that ...
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Manage base theme with version control?
I develop wordpress theme based on a base theme.
sometimes when i'm coding i want to add functions, or simply piece of code i've just added to to the theme i am working to my base theme.
in this way ...
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Best practice for versioning wp-config.php?
Is there a best practice for including your wp-config.php file in your version control repository?
I'm considering creating a new site with this type of configuration, (similar to Alex King and Mark ...
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Can plugin2 uninstall plugin1 at the very beginning of plugin2's installation?
As per the title. I have a new version of a plugin. It installs fine on a clean WordPress. When a user tries to install it when they have a previous version installed, the plugin does not function. ...
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Version Control: Entire site or just pieces?
I've been using git to track changes in the plugins and themes I've developed for different sites. Each plugin or theme has their own repository in whichever local install of WordPress I happen to be ...
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what is the cache directory for in my theme? (version control it?)
I was wondering what processes exactly use the cache directory inside my theme's directory. More specifically, I am wondering if I should add any of those files to my git repo.
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WordPress project under Mercurial, what's an appropriate .hgignore file?
For those of you who are controlling their project with Mercurial, I'm curious as to what you have listed in your .hgignore file? I'm at a bit of a loss as to what I should include in it. I'm ...
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How do I add version control to my workflow?
I develop themes, lots of them. I am given a PSD, code up the HTML/CSS, slap the code into Wordpress, and make corrections as they get QC'd. Once live, clients can edit blog posts like normal or ...
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Dev, Stage and Production Deployment for WordPress Sites?
So I need to be able to have dev/stage/production iterations (over separate servers) for a WordPress website, I use git usually but this obviously isn't going to work with WordPress sites because of ...
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storing database in version control
I am using a version control system to manage my wordpress code (git). What is the betst way to store the database information into version control?
I want to go to my staging machine, run git pull ...
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How to use one git (github) repository for version control for multiple themes
I have built and maintain many themes for various clients. I'd like to be able to put them all in github for lovely version control. However github gets a bit expensive when you have over 20 private ...
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Subversion, github, etc.. version control systems/repositories
I'm developing WP as a heavily bespoke CMS. One of the five plugins required is already 2500 lines of code and isn't quite finished.
I work between two machines - my laptop and my home PC.
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Using Subversion to deploy WordPress
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 ...
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Setting up SVN for teamwork on WordPress custom theme development
Amongst technical devs, it's pretty straightforward to get everyone running their own local dev server, get TortoiseSVN running, and then commit changes periodically to the repository. We can then ...
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Versioning and your WordPress site?
So what is the best process for setting up a large community site using WordPress with git version control? Multiple people submitting changes etc, testing area and easy way to update the live site. ...
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How do I implement a .diff changeset from core.trac.wordpress.org locally?
I have a local copy of the latest version of wordpress that I set up using
svn co http://core.svn.wordpress.org/trunk/
There is a diff that I want to pull into my local fileset:
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WP plugin management
We have a wordpress MU install, one thing I'm missing is some sort of plugins version management. Currently, when auto-updating a plugin, I need to place full trust the developer that the plugin won't ...
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Painless way to track remote Git repo for Wordpress updates
I'm looking for a way to keep development instances of Wordpress up to date and under version control with Git.
Has anyone managed to the following?
set up git to track a repo containing the ...
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Using source control with WordPress
I just recovered from a pretty bad crash using Server 2008 Shadow copy. Ultimatly I didn't lose more than a few hours of work but a loss is a loss.
I've decided to move to version control to prevent ...
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Is it better to create a Git repository at the root level or in the WordPress theme directory?
I've currently been creating my Git repositories at the root level for each of my WordPress installations. Git of course then notices any core updates, plugins, and uploads. I'm considering just ...
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Best way to version control WordPress template files?
The built-in ability to restore revisions of posts and pages in Wordpress is great. Is there something that gives the same power to template files in the theme-editor? Perhaps a plugin?
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Should I use SVN or Git?
I've never used version control before, but I'm starting to work more collaboratively on WordPress plugins and themes and I think it would be a good idea to have a record of versions and updates.
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Getting Started with Subversion, Git, or similar Version Control System to keep a History of my Files? [closed]
I realize this may be a broad question on the surface, but I'm looking for specific examples of setups/workflows that people use to keep a version history of edited files on a WordPress site. For ...
