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migrating to SVN from previous non-version controlled backups

From: John Walker <ronnystalker_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2007-04-10 02:32:38 CEST

Hello,
This is my first post as a newby so i hope i;'m doing the right thing here.

I have just been introduced to the whole concept of revision control
after 5 years of developping a website without it. I'm thinking, "i
wish i had this 5 years ago". So, I'm trying to 'fake' a Subversion
history using my old backup folders. I have a collection of copies of
my website documents which are instances of my site saved in folders
like "MySite_copy_2001_03_1", "MySite_copy_2004_11_05",
"MySite_copy_2007_02_28" etc. I have played around with a test
repository by, say, pasting the contents of MySite_copy_2001_03_1
into a folder in my working directory call "MySite", then committing
that. Then deleting all files in that directory and pasting in files
from MySite_copy_2007_02_28, and soon. This doesn't seem to work 'cos
I'm getting told to execute a cleanup command. Does anyone know how
to "fake" a revision history in any other way?
Thanks in advance.

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