Re: newbie question: import and co to the same directory?

In a message dated: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 17:55:31 EDT
Mike Carifio said:

>Suppose I have some content tree like ~/tree:
>
>$ cd ~
>$ mkdir tree-svn
>$ svnadmin create tree-svn # ~/tree-svn holds ~/tree content
>$ svn import -m "tree init" file://$PWD/tree-svn tree

Why are you doing both 'mkdir tree-svn' and 'svnadmin create tree-svn' ?

>Now, what I do today is:
>
>$ mv tree tree.dist
>$ svn co file://$PWD/tree-svn tree
>
>This *doesn't* work with /etc because svn faults:

Why doesn't it work? What's the error? I do this all the time.

># mv etc etc.dist # nope, won't work
># svn co file:///etc-svn etc # svn can't find /etc/ld.so.conf?

Well, that's obvious. ld.so.conf is in /etc. ld is compiled to look
in /etc for ld.so.conf, and you just moved it out of the way.

>$ svn co file://$PWD/tree-svn tree # co dies midway

What errors are you getting?

>So I'm missing something somewhere. Let's educate the silly newbie. Thanks.

Have you read the Subversion book and the FAQ? They're both online
at http://subversion.tigris.org/.

I recommend you dig into the book, it's very well written, and should
clear up a lot of your confusion.

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Seeya,
Paul
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