Re: Big update to project currently under version control?

On Feb 6, 2007, at 23:15, pt wrote:

> Recently Wordpress released version 2.1 and I went through the
> process of updating my local copy (version 2.0.5) of Wordpress to
> the latest release. This copy of Wordpress was being Subversioned,
> mainly so I could keep track of changes I'd made along the way to
> core files and themes, etc.
>
> The simplest way for me to upgrade was to copy the files I'd
> changes across to a clean install of WP 2.1, but now I'm faced with
> the problem that my working local copy of WP is now in a directory
> that isn't being Subversioned. I could create a whole new
> repository, but I'd prefer to be able to continue using the
> repository I'd previously been using for 2.0.5 - I'm just not sure
> how to copy all of those files back into the 2.0.5 directory to
> bring it up to date.
>
> In particular, I'm worried that files may have been removed from
> 2.1 that existed in 2.0.5, so a straight directory-to-directory
> copy isn't going to work.
>
> So, I'm now wondering if there's an easier / preferred way of
> achieving this?

Have you already read about vendor branches and the svn_load_dirs.pl
script in the book?

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.2/svn.advanced.vendorbr.html

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