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Re: Error while trying to import /etc into Subversion

From: Man-Chi Leung <manchi.leung_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2006-04-04 04:53:49 CEST

hi Ryan,

thanks for your great help.

yes, I will try on the in-place import.

~manchi

On Apr 4, 2006, at 12:09 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> On Apr 2, 2006, at 21:07, Man-Chi Leung wrote:
>
>> encountered error while i was trying to put /etc into SVN repository
>>
>> ---------------
>> SVN Import :
>> ---------------
>> $/usr/local/bin/svnadmin create /export/home/svn/etc-conf
>> $cd /
>> $svn import -m "server config" etc svn+ssh://root@domain_name/
>> export/home/svn/etc-conf
>>
>> ---------------------
>> Error Message:
>> ---------------------
>> svn: Unknown or unversionable type for 'etc/cron.d/FIFO'
>>
>> -----------------------------------
>> FIFO 's file size = 0 ! does it matter to SVN?
>
> No, what matters is that it's not a regular file but a FIFO. You
> can't add those to a Subversion repository.
>
> http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2005-05/0002.shtml
>
> Perhaps an in-place import, rather than a regular import, would
> work better for you.
>
> http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#in-place-import
>
> Or, perhaps FSVS (which is based on Subversion libraries) would
> work better. I don't know, but it's designed for putting /etc under
> revision control, where Subversion itself is not really.
>
> http://fsvs.tigris.org/purpose.html
>
>
>

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