Re: Newbie Question: How to version an existing folder/file(s)

On 21 July 2010 18:47, Ash <ash.c3po_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I have a very large project with close to 100 Meg of files.  I got the latest tar balled copy from my colleague which I untared on my machine.
>
> Is there anyway, I can version this folder with my SVN server without actually copying 100 Megs worth of files from there.  Obviously, I want to version my folder so that I can get any future changes directly from the SVN server.
>
> Any help will be highly appreciated.

If the folder tree does not already exist in the repository then you
will have to transmit everything back to the repository. The easiest
way to do that is as described in the manual as "Import in place"
http://tortoisesvn.net/docs/release/TortoiseSVN_en/tsvn-dug-import.html#tsvn-dug-import-in-place

If the folder tree already exists in the repository then you either
have to make a fresh checkout, downloading from the repository, or you
can take a copy of someone else's working copy including all the .svn
directories. There is no way to create the .svn directories by magic.

Simon

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