Import then checkout

I've got a soure tree with several thousand files in it. After
importing into subversion, I'd like to make my tree a working copy. Is
there a way to do this? The checkout command appently expects to run on
an empty folder or a folder that is already a working copy.
 
I keep getting errors of the form: svn: Failed to add file 'filename':
object of the same name already exists.
 
It works fine if the folder is empty.
 
Brian Erickson
Bauer Controls
 
Received on Thu Oct 26 19:24:35 2006