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Re: Hey wordpress guys, have you heard of diff?!

shiva — Sun, 11 May 2008 04:38:50 -0000

you are right. I failed to do a diff -r, and did a on the parent dir instead. :). My bad.

Re: Hey wordpress guys, have you heard of diff?!

shiva — Sun, 11 May 2008 04:38:04 -0000

This is a very nice idea, and I just did that for my blog. Thanks. Of course this option only applies if one has CLI access to the hosting server (With svn support as well). I don't think very many web-hosts support that.

Thankfully mine do. I use webfaction.

My case to wordpress still stands. There should be some form of auto-installer for applying these fixes, some kind of plugin, that allows users to upgrade at the click of a button. I doubt that would be very hard to do.

Re: Hey wordpress guys, have you heard of diff?!

Austin — Tue, 06 May 2008 08:20:54 -0000

You should look into using Subversion to manage your WordPress sites. Basically with a three-word command you can update your install. I use it to update dozens of sites in a matter of seconds.

Re: Hey wordpress guys, have you heard of diff?!

Matt Mullenweg — Tue, 06 May 2008 03:20:43 -0000

I'm afraid something is wrong with your diff function, a lot more than that changed between 2.5 and 2.5.1. Check out this link:

http://trac.wordpress.org/c...

If you just change the wp-login.php file you're missing most of the fixes.