Subversion and Wordpress (or any other 3rd party)
Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 2:55 pm
Ok, so I've been having a discussion with my team about version control. I'm a big advocate of it, and I believe version controlling is perfect for any company. However, there is a discussion going on now about wether or not we should version control Wordpress, or any other 3rd party application for that matter.
I personally don't think so, and think it's a bad idea, a bad use of diskspace, and unnecessary overkill. To me, a 3rd party application is maintained by another group, has it's own versioning system, and should be left that way.
Granted, there are cases were versioning some of the files (like configuration files) were this may be granted, or any other custom job that you may do to the application where you would want to keep your code. But for the most part, the 3rd party app itself is maintained elsewhere, and putting it into a repository is just unnecessary.
So, my question is, what do you guys think about this?
I personally don't think so, and think it's a bad idea, a bad use of diskspace, and unnecessary overkill. To me, a 3rd party application is maintained by another group, has it's own versioning system, and should be left that way.
Granted, there are cases were versioning some of the files (like configuration files) were this may be granted, or any other custom job that you may do to the application where you would want to keep your code. But for the most part, the 3rd party app itself is maintained elsewhere, and putting it into a repository is just unnecessary.
So, my question is, what do you guys think about this?