Title: subversion problems
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# subversion problems

 *  Resolved [bubazoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bubazoo/)
 * (@bubazoo)
 * [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subversion-problems/)
 * I upgraded from 2.2.2 to 2.3 using the instructions on the subversion area of
   the wiki.
 * basically, I ran subversion into a directory called “blognew” then copied the
   plugins and themes I needed into that directory, and the upgrade process was 
   complete.
 * however, now its time to upgrade to 2.3.1, so I ran svn update from the command
   line
 * and its saying
 * directory “.” is not a valid svn directory
 * so…what is the purpose of subversion then? because its not upgrading even when
   its a subversion copy, this is aggravating, and more difficult then the FTP method
   in my opinion.
 * personally, new version notification does me NO good at all, unless it offers
   a one-click install for me, otherwise its a pain in the butt to have to
 * download the new tar.gz file
    extract it to my HD upload all the upgraded files
   individually using FTP (making sure my FTP program uploads them in the correct
   format, binary or text, that alone is always a lengthy project, sometimes the
   FTP transfer fails to upload a file or two, so then you end up having to upload
   the whole thing again)
 * over dialup this takes forever anyway, especially as large as wordpress is getting.
 * CPanel’s Fantastico makes all this a breeze normally, but Fantastico has yet 
   to add 2.3.X to its list. Its still using 2.2.X series.
 * isn’t there an easier way?
 * I mean, I suppose I could run “wget” from a command promot, and untar it using
   the tar command, but the tar.gz file doesn’t extract to the current directory,
   so that won’t work. See what i mean? its frustrating.
 * and what gets me about it, because I’m not using either of the default themes
   included with wordpress, thats all I could really do is just “wget” the file,
   extract it using tar, overwriting existing files. Thats about as easy as it could
   get besides the Fantastico method, “IF” I could figure out how to extract in 
   the current directory, and not within a subdirectory of the current directory,
   otherwise you have to copy everything over using
 * cp *.* ../blog –reply=yes
 * or something to that effect, otherwise it prompts you for every destination file
   that already exists, and frankly, its a lengthy time consuming process, took 
   me a whole day to do it without errors last time, and it excluded certain files,
   so that didn’t really work too well either. isn’t there an easier way?

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 *  Thread Starter [bubazoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bubazoo/)
 * (@bubazoo)
 * [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subversion-problems/#post-644136)
 * nevermind on this. I ended up using
 * [upgrade wordpress vis shell](http://techtites.com/2007/03/03/upgrading-wordpress-via-shell/)
 * which works rather well.

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