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Do you support or plan to support subversion for doing upgrades?

I’m not EE.  But I don’t think so—I know they don’t support Subversion out of the box for upgrades.  I’m sure you could do it, of course.  But at the moment, no. 

I’m not quite sure how supporting subversion would work, anyway—while it would be fine for the files, the mysql db doesn’t work with Subversion that I know of, and many of the changes are DB changes, or could be. 

I’m sure someone more knowledgeable than I will chime in, though.

SVN would be overkill for doing upgrades since its really a straight-forward process. Backup what you have, upload the new, and then run a script. The majority of upgrades are no more complex than that.

That being said, if you’re knowledgeable with SVN there isn’t a reason you couldn’t use it to maintain your site. You wouldn’t need any sort of official support for that, you’d just have to know how to use SVN. We use SVN to manage EE development but we don’t use it to maintain our web sites. There simply isn’t a need for it.