David Waite <mass@akuma.org> writes:
> Just a $0.02 on this subject - my ideal 'import' would actually just
> be a svn add which did not require a root wc. it would schedule the
> whole imported tree for addition, and perhaps would scan for things
> such as mime-type and line endings and set those properties, but
> wouldn't affect the repository until I did a commit. This would allow
> me to have much stronger control over my imports, and would leave me
> after import with a valid working copy.
>
> -David Waite
Want to add that to issue #1328? I think it's a good way of
approaching the problem...
-K
> On Dec 30, 2003, at 7:18 AM, kfogel@collab.net wrote:
>
> > root <ebay_101011_0x2b@yahoo.com> writes:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I have a quick question on subversion. I have a
> >> subversion server, and a client.
> >>
> >> I first do an import from the client to the server to
> >> populate a repository from the first time.
> >>
> >> I would then like to checkout the same repository. I
> >> find that the only way to do this that works well is
> >> to rename the directory I imported from, then do a
> >> checkout in a new directory, then delete the renamed
> >> directory if things copied over correctly. This seems
> >> like a waste of bandwidth and diskspace.
> >>
> >> Alternatively, if I do a directory import, and follow
> >> that with a checkout on the same directory, I find
> >> that the subversion client I am using (Tortoise)
> >> complains that the directories already exist, and it
> >> fails.
> >>
> >> Is there a more reasonable way to do this?
> >
> > Not today, see
> >
> > http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1328
> >
> > -Karl
> >
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