Re: importing a non moveable tree

On Wednesday 12 April 2006 16:32, George Georgalis wrote:
> I'd like to import /usr/local/www to a repo (as trunk/www).
>
> This directory contains, a global apache configuration, some
> makefiles, a virtual domain directory for each domain, which in
> turn contains that domain's config, log files, htdocs, cgi, etc.
>
> I want to import most of the (running) tree but as I set
> svn:ignore, I get a fairly plain error.
>
> svn propset svn:ignore 'access.log supervise error current @4*' .
> svn: '.' is not a working copy
>
> I can imagine a number a ways to deal with this, such as importing
> just the directory 'www' elsewhere (with properties) then stop
> the webserver, move the original www away, checkout www, move the
> live content in there, startup the webserver and piecemeal add the
> content.
>
> maybe that won't work, or there is a better way?

Yes. Create the www empty dir else where, as you suggested, then check
that out on top of you /usr/local/www. You can then "svn add" things
in /usr/local/www.

-- 
> Nick Thompson
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