Upgrading EE using subversion (SVN)
Development and Programming
Hi there,
I’ve discovered subversion recently and I’m really loving it so far.
Anyway, I can’t figure out how to handle an ExpressionEngine upgrade, while preserving my SVN history of changes.
It seems, that it’s not possible to import/overwrite folders in my local working copy and when I simply overwrite the files/folders in the OS X finder all of the folders in SVN get obstructed for the hidden .svn-directories are getting replaced too.
Now, I could manually overwrite each and every file and it seems that subversion will automatically detect the local change and also allow me to commit these changes to the remote repository. But this would be a tedious and time consuming process and I can’t believe it’s the right way of doing it.
So, what would be the best method for upgrading EE, using SVN?
Thanks! 😊
I usually just use the command line to do upgrades in OSX
cp -R ./NewEE ./Website
Doing that (with proper paths of course) would copy everything from NewEE into Website. You would want to backup any settings files or modified core files because they will be overwritten.
Thanks for your reply! For me the easiest solution seems to be to just submit my templates and languages folders to version control.
With this setup I can freely upgrade any system files and still keep a history of all the files that I tweak mainly.