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OK, thanks. Looks like I cant do it then as I cant ssh to my server, I havent tried telneting but I guess I wont be able to do that either.

Thanks again anyway, Im sure others would find a write up useful though.

No apologies needed, I know how the many good support people here get pissed off with others complaining and I dont expect a walkthrough just because I ask for it.

I still dont think its unreasonable though, when someone as high up the WP echelons (possibly the top) mentions SVN and the ease of upgrading WP twice in quick succession on his site to hope for detailed examples of SVN in relation to WP and how it would work with upgrading.

Atleast SOME sort of mention on the codex and more than the pitiful page on the WP downloads area, which unless you have experience of SVN is really no more than “you can use svn, heres some commands” would not seem too much.

Again, Im grateful for the support there is, I try and help myself when I can, but can those more experienced in certain (possibly more obscure) areas please think about suitable explanations when they are posting what could be truly helpful items.

… phew, and relax.

I saw it on Matts site and a few other sites, its not too much surely to expect something explaining it on the codex.

Its like when I suggested I adding my plugin to the plugins database and was told ‘use svn’. Err duh, I need a little more explanation please.

Maybe ‘bandied’ was a slightly inflammatory word, but I think the search had just irritated me. I had done a good few googles and searches before foisting my spleen upon the forums, honest.

I understand that upgrading is just something that can be done with svn and isnt the be all and end all, but if thats all I want to do then surely theres gotta be a means to explaining it in plain(ish) english without sending me to instruction manuals?

well im still lost, Ive installed subversion, and in terminal “svn checkout http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/trunk ./” just returns “svn: Command not found.”

Yet the GUI app for svn seems fine, but I dont know how to do ‘diff’ing. Maybe I should just give up, it seems hellacomplicated, Im just envious.

Update the files on my server (not local, regular web server) as matt shows is apparently easy to do.

I have 4 installs of WP in my server and some other installs on other peoples servers, this easy upgrading would be a boon.