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Re: Clueless beginner questions

From: Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2007-08-31 22:26:41 CEST

novnov wrote:
> Interesting, I do see the files via the repo browser.
>
> One question, you wrote "What you need to do now is check these files out to
> a new location which
> will give you a working copy - ie a copy of the files that has a link to the
> repository." But it does not have to be a new location, it could just as
> easily be the original location of the files?

If you try to checkout to the original location, the checkout will fail
because it won't overwrite existing files. At least not in TSVN 1.4.x -
TSVN 1.5 will be able to do that.
You can however rename/move/delete your original files and then checkout
those again to the same location.

Stefan

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