Automating your releases with shell scripts

WordCamp The Netherlands 2014

Barry Kooij

• Senior Web Developer @ Yoast

• WordPress SEO (Premium), News SEO, Video SEO

• Post Connector, What The File

• Moderator WPNL forum

• Twitter: @cageNL

Agenda

• GIT

• GIT > SVN

• Q&A

We use GIT

WordPress repositories are SVN

GIT

GIT

• Distributed Revision Control

• GitHub

• Branches, tags

• Releases, Forks, Pull Requests

GIT

GIT > SVN

SHELL SCRIPTS

A shell script is a computer program designed to be run by the Unix shell, a command line interpreter.

STEPS1. Checkout the SVN repository

2. Clone the GIT repository

3. Init and update all submodules

4. Remove unwanted files and folders

5. Copy git clone to SVN trunk

6. SVN add & rm on all added and deleted files

7. Copy SVN trunk to SVN tag

8. Create GitHub Release

9. Manually do a SVN commit

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Thank you. !

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