Maybe this is why so many people ask to be testers and then don’t. I’ve never worked with SVN before. I was thinking we could download the latest or nightly build and go from there. I’ll have to learn this SVN stuff before beginning. I’m sure it’s a good idea to have an understanding of this, I’m just not sure if I have the time. I also wanted to test it on both a local copy of a running site (upgrade) as well as a fresh install. It seems I’ll have to then work with the two site via SVN? Not just get it once. This will now have to wait until at least Tuesday, as I don’t have the time to read through how to get started with SVN. Do you have a simple step-by-step example maybe?

I’m not complaining! I’m just explaining, and trying to make sure I communicate so you understand where I am. I am committed to helping out with the testing

the original post asking for volunteers clearly stated that we would be running the 5.0 alpha from SVN.  understand it could be buried in slew of other posts now…

have you read through this topic?  multiple posts talk about getting started…  but first thing you would need is an svn client (on pc would recommend tortoise svn – open source, free)… 

and yes, you would need an svn checkout for each of the sites…

its not as daunting as it sounds – pretty straight forward, but understand having to learn new stuff…

a nightly build is something we are considering when we go beta and things slow down a bit…  I can discuss with Andy any option or benefit of doing so now… with the SP updates now available in the WP updater, would be a chance to test it with other users…

Shari it really is easy, I had never done any of this stuff prior to this release and had it all working perfectly within a day or two. I was a complete luddite when it came to this stuff but I have been getting my hands dirty modifying code and all sorts of exciting things like that. There are plenty of willing helpers.

Conrad

I just tried to do a ssh svn update and got the following message:

svn: Repository UUID ‘1c98814a-1604-11e1-9bd8-9393fc282e4b’ doesn’t match expected UUID ‘e9d9f06e-4ef4-4d02-a494-9d0c99069192’

How do I fix this? I assume that this is something to do with the recent hosting trainwreck?

Sorry Conrad. Due to the hosting move it is necessary to remove the old SP svn’d files and check them out anew from the repository – the same as the first time it was done.

But – now we are in beta you can have SP update via the WP updates page…

So you can 🙂 I also see that WP 3.3 beta has a new release. Great stuff.

Not yet – still at beta 4. Then there will be a short RC period as well.

To fast for your own good

Yellow Swordfish said

Sorry Conrad. Due to the hosting move it is necessary to remove the old SP svn’d files and check them out anew from the repository – the same as the first time it was done.

But – now we are in beta you can have SP update via the WP updates page…

Er sorry but I can’t remember how I did this, from memory I used totoise svn and had a long winded method from local folders but now have shell access which was much better.

How do I wipe out the old svn stuff and start anew? I really prefer this method, it is so elegant and quick. I promise that I will write the process down this time as I clearly can’t rely on my memory.

just remove the entire simple-press directory and its contents…  then use your svn client to check http://svn.simple-press.com/trunk

repeat for plugins and themes if using those via svn too…

<http://svn.simple-press.com:80>Subversion repository requests a user name and password. Sorry if I’ve been given this info before but if so I do not remember it. Can you PM me the credentials please.

what are you doing? svn checkout?

you shouldnt need a username and password to read stuff… only if you try to commit….

I think that I am confusing myself by virtue of the old route I took before I had shell access. Basically I used tortoise svn on my local windows machine and then ftp’d all the content of the folders up to my server. I seemed to remember having to check in the downloaded stuff on my local machine but obviously I am doing things wrong. Anyway now I can see how to do it –  all I need to do is download the lot, ftp everything up to the server and then go back to using the shell access to do svn up. Sometimes I astonish myself with my own stupidity.

These things usually occur when I am concentrating on several things at once. I have to accept the fact that I don’t remember stuff and that my ability to parallel process is diminishing daily.

PS I know what I did wrong now, I was attempting to import instead of using checkout. How dumb is that!

okay cool. no worries.