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Re: [Subclipse-users] Files from another repository

From: Mark Phippard <markphip_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2007-08-23 23:39:41 CEST

On 8/23/07, vizion <david@atf4.com> wrote:
> Mark Phippard-3 wrote:
> >
> > On 8/23/07, vizion <david@atf4.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> I have a back up of thousands of files which we need to import into a
> >> current
> >> project. The files were orginally held on a server destroyed in a fire.
> >> The
> >> back up copies were created by a process that removed the tmp/.svn files.
> >> If
> >> I import them into a project (using eclipse radrails) the files still
> >> have
> >> versioning properties that confict with the versioning properties for the
> >> current project in the current repository (which is held on a local
> >> freebsd
> >> server using apache& mod_dav_svn).
> >
> > I do not understand what you mean. If the .svn files do not exist,
> > then essentially it is like you have an exported copy of your
> > repository. There is no versioning information. What exactly do you
> > want to do? If you still have your repository, why do you need the
> > files? Do they have modifications to them?
> >
> > You might be better off asking on the Subversion users@ list. More
> > people to reach.
> >
> > I think you should try to phrase your problem better though so that
> > you get the right help. Perhaps talk about what you have tried to do
> > and what did not work.
>
> When files have been versioned they have properties which include the
> version # and the name of the committer. So an attempt to include those
> files in a different repository fails if the versioning properties. In thsi
> instance following an importing of the files into the project an attempt to
> commit those files to the depository fails with an error stating that the
> .svm/tmp files could not be found. I am not exactly certain how this works
> but I believe the expected path to the .svn/tmp is part of the property
> metadata. I thought anyone who was likely to know the answer would
> understand the question rather than suggest I could explain the problem
> better. It sounds like you blame me vecause you do not know the answer.

Wow! Good luck.

-- 
Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/
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