Re: Importing into subversion

On Feb 14, 2007, at 13:08, pingu wrote:

> Hi, i have read a lot online, and am confused as to how you import
> a project
> into your repository.
>
> This page http://www.germane-software.com/~ser/R_n_R/
> subversion.html here
> says that you should create the dir structure (trunk, tags,
> branches) before
> you import your project.
>
> Whereas this page
> http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/08/10/subversion.html?
> page=2 here
> suggests you import your project as is, but append /trunk to the
> import line
> e.g
>
> svn import -m "Importing project widget" \
> ~/MyWorkArea/ProjectWidget \
> http://localhost:8008/svn/ProjectWidget/trunk
>
> Which is correct? are they any different?

Do it whatever way you like. Subversion is a versioned file system.
Create directories and files in it any way you like.

Creating the trunk, branches, tags directories locally and importing
them all at once is useful because you can use a commit message like
"setting up initial directory structure" and get it all in a single
revision, which makes sense because it is logically a single task.

On the other hand, you could import just the trunk, as your second
link advocates. Then, when you later want to create a branch or a
tag, you'll first have to create the branches and/or tags
directories. Which would be fine too. Whatever you like.

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