Time saved by: SVN

19th of May, 2007 (Last modified: 26th of May, 2007) Håvard WordPress , Side note ,

After updating all my local development installations of WordPress by hand, using wget and whatnot, I figured the time was right to start using subversion instead. And what a treat! Just a simple

svn checkout http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/trunk/ .

and before you know it; your blog is shining and up-to-date. What's even more nifty, is that you can do the same thing if you're using K2.

svn checkout http://kaytwo.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ wp-content/k2

Does it get any simpler than that? And if you're wondering if you're using the newest version, all you have to do is a short and simpe

svn update

Enjoy!