1. Productivity 101: Making a
Easily Re-deployable Dev
Environment with Subversion
Ryan Duff
fusionized.com
ryan@fusionized.com
WordCamp Philly
October 30th, 2010

2. Who Am I?
• Been Involved with WordPress since 2004
• Lover of Open Source and Productivity
• Owner of Fusionized Technology
(http://fusionized.com)

3. About You...

4. How do you set up
new development
environments or client
projects?

5. Do you...
• Grab a specific copy of WordPress?
• Download your “standard” plugins?
• Download a (few) themes?

6. All three?

7. And then some?

8. Have you heard of
DRY?

9. Don’t Repeat Yourself

10. Why repeat time doing
something over and
over?

11. What this presentation
is about...

12. • Saving yourself time
• Saving your clients money
• Simplifying your workflow

13. There are three ways
to set up a stock
install...

14. • Manual
• Virtual Machine
• Subversion Repository

15. Lets evaluate each
method...

16. Manual
• Labor Intensive
• Has to be repeated every time
• No real organization
• Easy to change or customize

17. Virtual Machine
• Labor intensive in the beginning
• Easy to re-deploy
• Hard to update

18. Subversion
• Slightly labor intensive in the beginning
• Fairly easy to update
• Easy to change or customize

19. And the winner is...

20. Subversion
(of course)

21. A few requirements:

22. • Subversion server
• Subversion client
• Some repository URLs
• A plan

23. Subversion Server
Resources
• http://subversion.apache.org/
• http://svnbook.red-bean.com/
• http://www.open.collab.net/downloads/
subversion.html

24. Lets get started...

25. svn:externals

26. The subversion
property that ties
everything together

27. Three Parts:

28. Revision (optional)
wordpress -r16099 http://core.svn.wordpress.org/trunk
Local Folder Subversion Path

29. Setting svn:externals

30. svn propedit svn:externals .

31. A sample...

32. wordpress http://core.svn.wordpress.org/trunk
wordpress/wp-content/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack
http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/all-in-one-seo-pack/tags/1.6.12.2
wordpress/wp-content/plugins/google-sitemap-generator
http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/google-sitemap-generator/tags/3.2.4
wordpress/wp-content/themes/motion
http://themes.svn.wordpress.org/motion/1.0.7

33. Your new workflow:

34. • Create svn repo on your svn server
• Perform a check out of the (empty) svn repo
• Set the svn:externals property on your local svn
copy
• Preform a check in of your local svn copy
• Run a svn up on your local copy to grab all your
new external sources

35. A more advanced
scenario...

36. Multiple WordPress
versions:

37. wordpress http://core.svn.wordpress.org/trunk //trunk
wordpress3 http://core.svn.wordpress.org/3.0 //3.0
wordpress301 http://core.svn.wordpress.org/tags/3.0.1 //3.0.1

38. /
/wordpress
/wordpress3
/wordpress301

39. wordpress http://core.svn.wordpress.org/trunk
wordpress/wp-content/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/all-in-one-seo-pack/tags/1.6.12.2
wordpress/wp-content/plugins/google-sitemap-generator http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/google-sitemap-generator/tags/3.2.4
wordpress/wp-content/themes/motion http://themes.svn.wordpress.org/motion/1.0.7
wordpress3 http://core.svn.wordpress.org/3.0
wordpress3/wp-content/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/all-in-one-seo-pack/tags/1.6.12.2
wordpress3/wp-content/plugins/google-sitemap-generator http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/google-sitemap-generator/tags/3.2.4
wordpress3/wp-content/themes/motion http://themes.svn.wordpress.org/motion/1.0.7
wordpress301 http://core.svn.wordpress.org/tags/3.0.1
wordpress301/wp-content/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/all-in-one-seo-pack/tags/1.6.12.2
wordpress301/wp-content/plugins/google-sitemap-generator http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/google-sitemap-generator/tags/3.2.4
wordpress301/wp-content/themes/motion http://themes.svn.wordpress.org/motion/1.0.7

40. Resources:

41. • http://subversion.apache.org/
• http://svnbook.red-bean.com/
• http://www.open.collab.net/downloads/subversion.html
• http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2005/11/02/my-wordpress-toolbox/
• http://blog.ftwr.co.uk/archives/2005/11/03/windows-wordpress-toolbox/

42. Let’s take the new car
for a spin...

43. ... and practice what we
just learned