On 01/10/2007, Troy Simpson <troy@ebswift.com> wrote:
> Sorry if this has already been brought up, but a google search only returned
> a whole lot of static. I want to make a suggestion to make Import similar
> to Add where you have checkboxes to remove folders from the import list.
>
> Currently if you want to make a new repository and import a large project
> the best way is to first import the structure, then checkout the trunk, copy
> all your source files into the trunk working copy, then from the trunk
> perform an add (at this point you can un-tick all the binary folders), then
> do a commit. That makes for an extra commit during the setup process and
> seems a bit more laborious. Just performing a blind import fills your
> repository with all kinds of nasty binaries if you haven't cleaned up your
> code tree first.
>
> If you had the tick boxes on import, you could setup your tags, branches,
> trunk structure in a temporary folder, move all your source files into the
> trunk, perform the import, and simply untick all the binaries. That's a
> single import to setup a whole repository for sourcecode without performing
> a pre-import cleanup.
>
> New users will have a better overall impression up front IMHO - as it is now
> I find it hard to convert new coders to habitually use subversion with
> tortoisesvn, but I am slowly succeeding - my list of converts is growing
> fast.
AFAIK the command line client doesn't have an option to import a list
of targets either. That functionality is just not supported in the
subversion API. There is currently a workaround:
http://tortoisesvn.net/node/248
and there is an issue in our tracker to make a better interface,
though it may not make it into 1.5.0
http://issues.tortoisesvn.net/index.php?do=details&task_id=373
Simon
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Received on Mon Oct 1 12:29:05 2007