Re: adding source from old working copy to new repository

On Apr 6, 2006, at 18:23, Chris Curvey wrote:

> I have a set of directories that used to be under Subversion
> control on machine A. (We no longer use subversion to manage these
> directories, but there are still old .svn directories lying
> around.) I want to take a subset of that data and add it to my
> working copy (which is linked to a different subversion repository,
> which we are still using).
>
> So I copied the data that I wanted from Machine A to Machine B,
> where my working copy resides. I deleted all the .svn directories,
> but when I try to "svn add" them to my other repository, svn tells
> me that the directory is already under version control. Any idea
> how I can grab these files and add them to my new repository?

Exactly like that, I would've thought. Are you sure you nuked *all*
the .svn directories? "svn export" could do it for you.

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Received on Thu Apr 6 18:47:33 2006