From 6c3909f5ecdfc3413f7ae799177cb6be69d9bc71 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: pewgeuges <73141620+pewgeuges@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2021 11:32:29 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Updated SVN Release Guide (markdown)

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 SVN-Release-Guide.md | 21 +++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/SVN-Release-Guide.md b/SVN-Release-Guide.md
index 37c5507..9806b35 100644
--- a/SVN-Release-Guide.md
+++ b/SVN-Release-Guide.md
@@ -8,12 +8,17 @@ Subversion is for release control, not development. This Git repo, hosted on Git
 
 # Pushing Code to the WP Plugin Directory
 
-1. Copy the SVN repo. locally (`svn co https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/footnotes/ footnotes-svn`)
-1. Enter the folder (`cd footnotes-svn`)
-1. Copy over the files from your local copy of this repo. (**make sure you have checked out the `main` branch**) into the `trunk/` directory
-  1. **MAKE SURE THAT THE ‘Stable Tag’ FIELD IN `trunk/readme.txt` IS THE LATEST RELEASE VERSION, NOT DEVELOPMENT**
-1. View the changes (`svn stat`)
+1. Copy the SVN repo. locally (`svn co https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/footnotes/ footnotes-svn`);
+1. Enter the folder (`cd footnotes-svn`);
+1. Copy over the files from your local copy of this repo. (**make sure you have checked out the `main` branch**) into the `trunk/` directory;
+  1. **MAKE SURE THAT THE ‘Stable Tag’ FIELD IN `trunk/readme.txt` IS THE LATEST RELEASE VERSION, NOT DEVELOPMENT!**
+1. View the changes (`svn stat`);
 1. If you are adding/removing any files, make sure you add them to/remove them from tracking using `svn add`/`svn rm`
-1. Commit your changes (`svn ci -m "<your message>"`)
-1. Pull down another copy of the repo. to test locally
-1. When the new version is ready for release, update the ‘Stable Tag’ field in `trunk/readme.txt` and the WP Plugin Directory will automatically handle the release.
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+1. Commit your changes (`svn ci -m "<your message>"`);
+1. Pull down another copy of the repo. to test locally;
+1. When the new version is ready for release, update the ‘Stable Tag’ field in `trunk/readme.txt`;
+1. Make sure the version number in trunk/footnotes.php is now in sync with the Stable Tag version;
+1. Copy trunk/ to its tagged folder: `svn cp trunk tags/<new version>`;
+1. Commit the release: `svn ci -m $'<full changelog of that version including the heading and with line breaks converted to \n>'`
+
+The WP Plugin Directory will automatically handle the release.
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