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Re: in place checkout

From: George Georgalis <george_at_galis.org>
Date: 2006-10-01 01:48:58 CEST

On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 08:58:06PM +0200, Erik Huelsmann wrote:
>On 9/28/06, George Georgalis <george@galis.org> wrote:
>>I think I've got "in place add" down. But this is a
>>new problem.
>>
>>there is a partition with a complex Apache
>>deployment in it. There are a large number of
>>sockets, logs and similar that don't belong in the
>>repo, mixed in with files and directories that do.
>>
>>so the situation is
>>
>>/www/vhost/...
>>/www/apache2/...
>>
>>are locations in the repo which work fine. the
>>running files (repo et al) are installed in
>>/usr/local
>>
>>The problem is /usr/local/www/.svn does not
>>exist (for various reasons). I'd like to make
>>/usr/local/www a working copy which contains
>>www/Makefile www/Makefile.sh in addition to vhost
>>and apache2.
>>
>>So how do I do that, in place?
>
>There's a new feature in trunk (up for 1.5) which supports this: the
>--force parameter for 'svn checkout'. It'll use any files already in
>your working copy as wc files, adding .svn directories and text-bases
>from the repository. Any differences between the repository and local
>disk will be reported as modified by svn status.

perfect. that's the behavior I was looking to find. Thanks.

// George

-- 
George Georgalis, systems architect, administrator <IXOYE><
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