Re: Subversion, TortoiseSVN, and Windows

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 16:16:04 +0100, Simon Large <slarge@blazepoint.co.uk> wrote:
> VSS works a little differently in that when you import a directory into
> the VSS database, that same directory automatically becomes your working
> copy. In SVN it is a 2-stage process. You import a directory into the
> SVN repository, but the directory you import is not made up into a
> working copy - it does not have any of the .svn control directories. To
> get a controlled WC you need to checkout from the repository, and the
> checkout has to be into an empty folder. So it is a 2-stage process.

Actually a trick that was taught to me goes like this and works pretty
well, especially if you are starting with an old project and a new
repository:

After creating the repository (svnadmin create /path/to/repos), check
out the revision 0 to your disk:

svn co svn://repos .

Then when svn status is executed, everything will come as unknown and
these can be added to the project or ignored using svn properties.

This way you don't have to import or throw away stuff. I work with a
large number of files (around 100k per repository/branch) so I don't
want to delete files. :-) It is just too time consuming but this
method works fine.

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Received on Thu Oct 21 17:57:07 2004