Unix configuration files under subversion

I'm trying to keep my Unix configuration files under
source control. I currently do this with perforce,
but what to use svn for certain systems.

Let's say I have the following file under source
control:

http://ip/svn/www/etc/someapp/someapp.conf

Now I want to map the repository directory /svn/www to
the system's / directory.

The directory someapp doesn't exist on the target
system only in the repository.

The problem is that I can't do the following:

cd /
svn co http://ip/svn/www/ .

Because the etc directory already exists.

Here's the error:

svn: Failed to add directory 'etc': object of the same
name already exists

That's fine. I just want to overwrite the files that
exist with the ones in the repostiory.

What I need is something like:
svn co http://ip/svn/www/ . --force

Unfortunately that option doesn't exist.

Any suggestions? I have to admit this is one place
that perforce's server side state handling and client
view mappings come in handy.

Christopher

        
                
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Received on Wed May 19 21:18:21 2004