Updating Wordpress via SVN when the repository URL changes

Wordpress has a great and constantly up-to-date wiki for administrators to manage Wordpress installations via SVN. Every time a release is made, I just search google for “wordpress svn sw” and copy the svn sw link over to my terminal.

But recently they changed the repository URL — which means anyone using the old URL will get the following error when they try to update (assuming they are using the svn sw command):
svn: 'http://core.svn.wordpress.org/tags/2.8' is not the same repository as 'http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress'

The fix for today’s (2.8) release is easy (replace 2.7.1 with whatever you were previously using):
svn switch --relocate http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.7.1 http://core.svn.wordpress.org/tags/2.7.1/ .

Then just do your normal:
svn sw http://core.svn.wordpress.org/tags/2.8/ .

It’s not hard to fix, but I’m not an avid user of SVN. So every time I do an update (assuming the repo URL has changed), I have to look at svn help and remember the syntax for changing repositories. Now, since I wrote this, I won’t need to. Perhaps this helped you too!

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Published:: 06.11.09 / 10am

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Philip Bernick 06.11.09 / 2pm

Thanks for posting this fix! Relocating svn repositories isn’t something I do every day either, and your post really helped!

Enoch Lau 06.11.09 / 10pm

Thanks, the error had me worried for a moment!

Jamie McDaniel 06.12.09 / 10pm

Hey, thanks! I do the same thing… google svn wordpress. I had remembered it being at automattic and when I saw the new location, I knew it was going to cause an error. Thanks for writing up the post. I don’t know why it isn’t on the official wordpress svn docs.

Jan Dembowski 06.13.09 / 10am

Ha! I forgot about the –relocate switch, I did it the hard way zapping the .svn directories

Alan 06.18.09 / 1pm

Thanks for the quick tip. You’re number one on google

Paul Stamatiou 06.26.09 / 5pm

Actually when i ran into this problem i manually forced the old repo URL (still active, just points to the new one) and it worked fine. But I’m not sure they’ll keep it up forever so this is a good guide!

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