Method of Updating Core & Themes about wordpress-skeleton HOT 5 CLOSED

For updating WordPress core, you'd point the submodule to a new commit SHA. Like so:

cd wp
git fetch
git fetch --tags
git checkout 3.4
cd ../
git add wp
git commit -m 'Update to WordPress 3.4'
git push

You might even make that a bash script that you can run, like wpup 3.4

For themes, I'd actually recommend that you put them in your repo, as they are sometimes updated outside of a WordPress release. Symlinking to the core ones is a bit of a shortcut just to get you started.

Once in your repo, you could use a local development checkout to have WordPress update the themes. Then just git add --all the theme directory, git commit -m 'Updating {name} theme', and git push.

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Thanks for the quick response, Mark. This is just what I'm needing.

However, you referenced deploying with Capistrano. I'm attempting the same with whiskey_disk. It seems that after running the commands you provided to update WordPress core to a specific tag, you would have to run those same commands on the production server after deploying. For example, after running:

...
git commit -m 'Update to WordPress 3.4'
git push
cap production deploy

It seems you would still have to SSH into the production server and run:

cd wp
git fetch --tags
cd ..
git submodule update

Are you doing this to deploy a WordPress core update to your production server? Is there a way around this? Are you using a post deploy bash script to do this?

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I have it built in to my Capistrano scripts. And I'll be releasing that as a separate "sister project" very soon. But here's the git submodule tags code:

# Enable Submodules in Capistrano
set :git_enable_submodules, 1

# Task to update submodule tags
namespace :git do
    desc "Updates git submodule tags"
    task :submodule_tags do
        run "if [ -d #{shared_path}/cached-copy/ ]; then cd #{shared_path}/cached-copy/ && git submodule foreach --recursive git fetch origin --tags; fi"
    end
end

# Schedule this task to happen BEFORE deploy
before( "deploy", "git:submodule_tags" )

BOOM, HEADSHOT!

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:) Very cool. Thanks again.

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Postscript: the "sister project" I mentioned is WP Stack.

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