"At Chapter Three we use the Subversion Version Control System to manage our client and internal Drupal projects. When we kick off a new project we roll out the latest version of Drupal, stick it in the SVN repository, and start developing.

As a matter of best practices it is usually a good idea to check Drupal directly out of the Drupal CVS repository which makes upgrading as simple as "cvs update -dP -r DRUPAL-5--X". However, we have a number of sites that were not checked out in this way and this makes updating Drupal sort of a pain. Our SVN management system wants us to update each file individually (so the changes can be versioned), but individually updating each of Drupal core's 300+ files is a little bit tedious."

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