When working with WordPress core, you often have to go back and forth through commits, scroll or search through revision logs, switch between tags and branches and so on. This can be annoying with a slow Internet connection and impossible without a connection at all, but what if you’re working on a core patch on a plane or a submarine?
GitHub Projects as Subversion Externals
It’s probably a no-brainer, but this totally blew my brains out. Apparently you can use Subversion with GitHub repositories! So if you’re a fan of Subversion externals, and like to include themes and plugins using svn:externals like this: akismet jetpack You’re gonna love the fact, that if the theme or plugin is not hosted in a Subversion repository, but on GitHub only (such as...
Thinking Subversion
Since I had to clean up all the mess in my SVN repo today, I’d like to show you some nifty tricks ;) First of all, I encourage all Windows users to forget about TortoiseSVN and all the other GUI versions, cause there’s nothing better than the good old plain-console subversion client. Just add it to your %PATH% system variable and you’ll be able to use svn commands from anywhere...