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How to upgrade CakePHP or any other package that is under subversion control with Rsync

Actually this is more simple than you might think.

First you checkout your current version. Then download and un-tar the new version and simply run the following command on your shell/terminal:

rsync -av --exclude '.svn' --exclude '._*' my/new/cakephp-cakephp-efb6e08/ my-old-cakephp/

This will exclude your Subversion .svn directories and it will also exclude the META-data files created by Mac OS X.

Good luck with upgrading!