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     (i.e. add a tree to subversion without moving or deleting the
     original working copy)?</a></h3> 
 
-<p>Suppose, for example, that you wanted to put some of /etc under
-version control inside a brand-new repository you created using:
-</p>
+<p>Suppose, for example, that you wanted to put the aliases file under /etc
+into version control inside your repository: </p>
 
 <pre>
-     # svnadmin create /root/svn
+  svn mkdir file:///repo/etc -m "in place import for config files"
+  svn checkout file:///repo/etc /etc
+  svn add /etc/aliases
+  svn commit /etc -m "configury"
 </pre>
 
-<p>To do this you would:
-</p>
-
-<pre>
-     # cd /
-     # svn co file:///root/svn etc
-     # cd etc
-     # svn add apache samba alsa X11 
-     # svn commit -m "configury"
-</pre>
-
 <p>This takes advantage of the a hidden feature of add which allows it
 to create working copies for directories which do not yet exist in the
 repository.