Long story short, I wanted to get commit emails for a Subversion repo. I don’t have any admin rights to the repo so I figured the easiest way was to just setup a local repo, keep up to date with the live repo with svnsync and then configure svn-notify on my local repo. [...]

Most of the time when I’m working with code that is checked out from Subversion it’s moving forward, version after version. There are times though where I need to revert back to a previous version (one reason you should have your code versioned in the first place). Subversion can do this, but it [...]

My preferred method for installing WordPress is to check it out from the Subversion repository (http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/). Recent versions of WordPress have added support to allow wp-config.php and wp-content to live outside of the WordPress directory. Here’s the steps to make your setup work as a Subversion check out (based on Sam’s WordPress Plus [...]