(Live and) learn SVN

I upgraded the blog to version 2.1.3 using subversion. I have a pretty decent workflow hammered out, but it was painful getting here. I can’t blog about it until I’ve smoothed out all the things I did wrong to start with. You wouldn’t believe how many times I ended up deleting the checkout that became my production version because I didn’t read the part of the book about the file:// protocol. We’ll have a lot of topics to cover when I’m ready:

• Installing SVN clients on OSX and Linux
• Installing SVN servers on Linux
• Setting up a repository
• Setting up a local checkout
• Checking out the production server
• Setting up passwordless SSH
• SCP
• Ignoring cache files and not overwriting image/file uploads from posts
• Revision strategies
• TextMate Subversion bundle, Zigversion, SmartSVN
• Command line SVN
• The list goes on…

Like I said, I’ve got a few things left to figure out. Once I do, I’m anxious to share all of my newfound knowledge with people who are probably looking for the same information. Everyone recommends SVN for web development, but there are very few easy-to-grasp resources for getting a server and workflow up and running. I’ll pull together what I’ve found and then share what I figured out. Stay tuned…

In the meantime, let me know what you think of all the little tweaks to the blog. I’m up to revision 41 on my blog’s repository ;).