On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 11:12:46PM +0200, Guido Ostkamp wrote:
>
> Hello Subversion book authors,
>
> I used subversion 1.0.6 for the very first time today and tried your book
> as primer.
>
> However, when I wanted to 'svn import' a local directory structure I found
> lots of examples for this command to be inaccurate - it doesn't work as
> described, you get an error instead. I don't know whether this is caused
> by a recent change in the command syntax.
There was a change, but it wasn't recent: version 0.25.0 introduced
the change (see CHANGES), over a year ago.
>
> The incorrect examples are given at these locations:
>
> 1. Introduction
> A Quick Start
> ...
>
> $ svn import /tmp/project file:///path/to/repos -m "initial import"
> ...
> 3. Guided Tour
> svn import
> ...
> $ svn import mytree file:///usr/local/svn/newrepos/some/project
> ...
> 9. Subversion Complete Reference
> The Subversion Command Line Client: svn
> svn Subcommands
> svn import
> ...
>
These examples are all correct. What errors were you getting?
> The command 'man svn' says
>
> import Repository-URL [Path] [New-Repository-Entry]
> [--username name] [--password pass] [--no-auth-cache]
> [--encoding] [-FmqN]
> Import a file or tree into the repository.
>
> which means that the 'repository-URL' is the first, not the second
> argument.
You are looking at a very old version of the svn man page. It hasn't
said that since 2003-10-07.
>
> Would you please fix the book?
>
> Thank you.
>
The book is correct, your man page it out of date.
--ben
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