How to Use Subversion From CLI For WordPress Plugin

Using subversion is just easy. Most Get Confused to Use Subversion From Command Line. Here is How to Use Subversion From CLI For WordPress Plugin First Release or Update. We have other subversion related guides which you may need later – Git with Subversion for WordPress Plugin Development, A lightweight subversion repository browser, installing subversion on own server. If you are new users, we recommend not to make it complicated with git.

 

Intended Audience of How to Use Subversion From CLI For WordPress Plugin Guide

 

WordPress Plugin and Theme Developers, WordPress Core developers, others who may use subversion. We are assuming that the person is slightly used with git. Git is not exactly easy over subversion. There is no reason to fear subversion. Here is big guide on subversion for reading later :

What we will tell you is enough for normal works. We are using OS X, the guide will work for GNU/Linux. Microsoft Windows users may use cygwin or use GUI tool named Tortoise SVN.

 

Steps of How to Use Subversion From CLI For WordPress Plugin Guide

 

This is our Plugin :

https://wordpress.org/plugins/ftp-to-zip/

When you’ll first get accepted to publish Plugin on WordPress repository, you’ll also get a set or URLs. Our corresponding SVN URL of WordPress is :

https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/ftp-to-zip/

I am at $HOME on my MacBook Pro, you can use any own directory or location :

It does not matter whether you are pushing for the first time or updating. We made the guide that will work for both. First I need to clone it :

I received this response :

I pressed P. Then I received this output :

I did an ls and changed directory to that one and ran ls :

If you are publishing the plugin for the first time, you may not have all the directories. What you’ll do is copying the modified files to either trunk or any tag numbered directory. As example, I can cd to trunk :

and do whatever here. As I had the directory tags, I not needed to create it. Else I had to create just a tags directory :

Under tag directory, I had to create the first version directory :

As I edited the files on trunk, I am at trunk directory. I need to copy the files of trunk towards the numbered tag directory :

You must use svn cp instead of only cp command. If you want to delete something, you have to use this command format :

For the first time, you need to add all the files :

Otherwise you need not to run the above command. You can optionally run these commands to check :

If your new version is Whenever you’ll run the command with your new version number like 1.0 below :

automatically, this will happen :

Very easy.

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