I would like to develop a WordPress theme, using a main development trunk for minor changes and a branch for the next page release. So I checked out my SVN trunk directory in wp-content/themes/themename-trunk and my current branch in wp-content/themes/themename-branch.
The theme is then selected by a user-depending plugin.
Now, WordPress uses a CSS comment for displaying the theme name. Obviously, WP does not use the directory name for distinguishing between themes internally. I definitely do not want to change the line containing the name in the style.css beacause otherwise this will create a mess in my SVN files and will make easy switching impossible.
Do you have another strategy for combining WP theme development with a multi-programmer SVN environment without maintainig a second WP installation?
Have you tried to use custom
svn:keywordswith Subversion 1.8 client?E.g. set
$themename$keyword in your theme’s CSS for theme name and specify the keyword on CSS file in “wp-content/themes/themename-trunk” and in “wp-content/themes/themename-branch” as “themename-trunk” and “themename-branch” accordingly. The keyword is going to be expanded like$themename: themename-branch $in the CSS file. You can change the keyword to the real name of the theme later.PS I may be missing some prettier and more obvious solution here (e.g. using vendor branches) but thought of keywords as the possible solutuion.