One advantage of a distributed version control system such as Mercurial is that any clone of a project is complete. The clone contains the entire history of the project. That makes backing up a repository trivial.
Not so for a centralized vcs such as Subversion. If you check out a copy of a project, you [...]
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upgrading WordPress
I just upgraded WordPress to the newly released version 2.2.3, using Subversion as described here. I used to upgrade WP by hand, a tedious task at best. Never again. SVN makes the upgrade process short and sweet. Highly recommended.
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