WordPress.org SVN URI wrong

[wpsmith]

Currently on ​https://wordpress.org/download/svn/ the command for SVN checkout is wrong.

It currently is:
svn co http://core.svn.wordpress.org/trunk/

and it should be
svn co https://core.svn.wordpress.org/trunk/

[bpetty]

Technically, it should be https://develop.svn.wordpress.org/trunk/ now.

[Otto42]

SVN doesn't require nor benefit from forced SSL at present.

bpetty: The core install is still at core.svn, not develop.svn. The code at develop.svn is what you get pre-build, before grunt runs and such.

[bpetty]

Replying to Otto42:

SVN doesn't require nor benefit from forced SSL at present.

It does for committers, and it doesn't hurt for regular users either.

bpetty: The core install is still at core.svn, not develop.svn. The code at develop.svn is what you get pre-build, before grunt runs and such.

As the top of the page mentions: "This page only applies to developers, if it's all Greek to you, don't worry!"

And since it's for developers, I don't see why it shouldn't point to the (actually) original source code that we really do prefer contributors generate patches against.

[bpetty]

Additionally, it would likely really help if that page also linked to the ​SVN page in the handbook.

[Otto42]

But that is a page under /download, which is why I don't think it needs to have detailed developer information. The "download" would be expected to be the built version, aka, core.svn. Not the developer version.

While I think that page does need a bit of a rewrite, I would be more inclined to remove any developer mentions or links from it, because of the location. Additionally, we *don't* want people getting a copy of develop.svn unless they're doing development. You would not want to run a live install off develop.svn, you'd want to run it off core.svn.

[wpsmith]

I am probably doing something wrong then, but in TortoiseSVN, using the non-secured version results in a failure. If I change the repo url to https://core.svn.wordpress.org/trunk/ then it works. Strange.

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[SergeyBiryukov]

Replying to wpsmith:

I am probably doing something wrong then, but in TortoiseSVN, using the non-secured version results in a failure.

Could not reproduce, it works for me without https.

[wpsmith]

Ok, error is on my end. Will investigate. Thank you.