svn

Keep local WordPress plugin customisations while pulling upstream releases from the SVN repository using git-svn — changes merge cleanly without conflicts.

Switching from Subversion to Git reduced development time significantly — no more waiting on commits, merge anxiety, or overwrite fears. Development is fun again.

Send SVN commit notification emails from the author's address by using the %(author)s variable in the from_addr field of mailer.conf on Debian or any SVN server.

colorsvn is a drop-in replacement for svn that adds color-coded output to the command line, making it much easier to spot conflicts and changes at a glance.

A custom init script for svnserve on Fedora Core 6 that integrates with the GNOME service configuration tool, supporting start, stop, restart, and status commands.