Switching a working copy with subversion

If you find that the location to a subversion repository has changed, do this:

svn switch --relocate http://textpattern.com/svn/repos/current/textpattern http://svn.textpattern.com/current/textpattern

Where the old url is http://textpattern.com/svn/repos/current/textpattern

And the new one is http://svn.textpattern.com/current/textpattern

To see if it worked, do this:

svn info | grep URL

And you should see something like this:

URL: http://svn.textpattern.com/current/textpattern

(source: Switching a Working Copy)

Clean Textpattern install from the current repository

In a shell, cd to the directory from which you'd like to serve the site, and rename or delete any '.htaccess' or 'index.php' files, and any directories called 'images' or 'files', that may be there.

Checkout the current code:

svn co http://svn.textpattern.com/current/ .

(Note the dot at the end). To complete the installation, just load http://thesiteurl/textpattern/ in a browser, fill in your database info, and when presented with the config.php block, copy it, go back to the shell client and:

nano textpattern/config.php

Paste in the code block, save and exit (ctrl-x, then y, then return).

Back to the browser, click through, add personal details, and that, as they say, is it.

Whenever you want to update to the latest code, cd to the same directory and:

svn update

...and the latest code will be seamlessly integrated with your installation.