By Michael Stucki
When a new TYPO3 update is released, administrators usually have to download a file which needs to be extracted on their servers. This tutorial explains an alternative solution which uses Subversion for this task.
This tutorial explains how to keep TYPO3 installations up to date using simple Subversion commands. It is written for server administrators who want to use a more flexible way to update their TYPO3 installations.
Subversion is a revision control system. It is used by developers to maintain their source code, allowing them to store all changes to their project files.
For more information about Subversion, please read the article on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Subversion