Re: check out on top of existing tree

Phil Lawrence wrote:
> How can I checkout ON TOP OF an existing dir structure?
>
> Usage:
> We have a *very* large vendor tree on a production server. I only want
> to version a few files within it. So I copy the stuff I want into a
> sparse version of the vendor tree, and import. No problem.
>
> Now, how do I checkout on top of the full vendor tree?
> $ cd $VENDOR_HOME
> $ svn checkout https://.../vendor/trunk .
> svn: Failed to add directory 'foo': object of the same name already exists
>
> What's the right way to do this?

I'm not actually aware of any convenient way to do this. I think perhaps
this is a missing feature.

Max.

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Received on Wed Jun 8 11:37:41 2005