On 10/26/06, Brian Erickson <erickson@bauercontrols.com> wrote:
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>
> 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.
Correct. Subversion doesn't want to overwrite files/directories that
already exist that it doesn't "control."
Sounds like you wanted to do an in-place import.
http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#in-place-import but at this
point, you may be best off renaming (and delete once you're sure you
can get everything back out of Subversion) the current directory and
doing a checkout.
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Received on Thu Oct 26 19:52:51 2006