Commit files without a full working copy?

Under SVN 1.2 I could add files without having to check out a full
working copy.
After an initial checkout, I would delete all files except the top level
.svn directory.
Then using "svn add d:\work\* --force; svn ci -m msg " would add in and
commit my new files.
 
This allowed me to check in files without having to have every single
file in the repository on my local workstation. Perhaps I was
exploiting a bug, but does anyone have a suggestion as to how to
accomplish this? I have 5 branches in 2 repos to check into, and don't
want to maintain 5 working copies.
 
Thanks,
 
John
 

 
Received on Fri Oct 13 22:18:06 2006