Yeah, but ftp is designed for transferring really big files; the high per-file overhead slows the upload process considerably when moving lots of little files.
And it just seems messy, and I'm anal about this stuff.
lol. I'll agree it's messy, but for instructing noobs how to quickly and easily grab the necessary files off the SVN with as little room for error as possible... :)
Actually, for tortiseSVN, you want to do svnUpdate, not Checkout, as if you have an account, you'll be checking out files against mark which could prove annoying for him.
Once you have a local copy of the files, and you're regularly updating, to make use of the files, minus all the stupid .svn folders, simply click on the folder and select "export". It will copy all the files to another non-svn'd directory on your system ready for deployment.
Checkout is the command you use when you want to check out files from the repository, make changes, and then put them back.
And YYYY-mm-dd is the international standard date format, because it isn't easily confused with another format, and dates can be ordered alphabetically.
I believe mark mentioned a while ago that he wouldn't be validating any more people who signed up to vanilla dev and to post their questions/comments into the appropriate category here. In either case, both the /community/ version and /vanilladev/ are pretty much one in the same give or take a slight delay in code base updates for testing purposes.
Arent they running on the same userbase, though? I thought he just said that it was frustrating that people applied within vanilladev as opposed to applying on here. Maybe i got confused.
don't worry about it. vanilladev was just initially used as a bombing zone to test most things under a copy of a db snapshot taken from this forum. At least users and logins anyway. Depending on the route mark takes, he'll likely do it all again for testing purposes just to see how easy things scale according to any framework changes.
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And it just seems messy, and I'm anal about this stuff.