Re: newbie question: import and co to the same directory? (second try)

Mike Carifio <carifio@usys.com> writes:

> I didn't ask my question clearly enough. On my RH9 box with svn 0.17, I
> don't seem to be able to import a tree into an svn repository
> and then immediately checkout back into the same directory.
> Is this a permissible pattern?

No, you cannot do this pattern. 'svn checkout' will not overwrite
unversioned files with versioned ones. Just allow 'svn checkout' to
create a new directory. The only time it's really permissible to
run 'svn checkout' into an existing directory is if the directory is
*already* a working copy (say, an interrupted checkout that you're
trying to resume.)

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Received on Wed Aug 27 15:53:33 2003