Erik Huelsmann wrote:
> On 11/19/07, Chris Horn <chris@beefstew.net> wrote:
>> I'm looking to manage portions of my filesystem with SVN. Things like /etc,
>> /var/www, etc. I already have a repository loaded with some files but not
>> others (i.e. /var/www is in my repository, but /etc isn't).
>>
>> I want to leave my server's existing filesystem in place, check some files into
>> control, and check some files out to empty slots in the filesystem. This
>> doesn't seem to be a supported use case, since SVN won't overlay a checkout
>> onto an existing file structure that overlaps at all with version controlled files.
>>
>> Is it safe to manually edit the .svn/entries file to achieve what I want per the
>> solution found at [http://linuxgazette.net/131/shirley.html]? Do you know of
>> any problems this could cause?
>
> No, it's not safe. It could cause Subversion to loose track, which can
> only be repaired by deleting the working copy and checking out again
> (which I presume is a bit hard for /etc...)
>
> The latest development version of Subversion however does allow
> checking out over a preexisting tree. Maybe you could try that?
Would this work better with svk managing the actual directory and
syncing against a mirrored svn project?
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@gmail.com
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Received on Mon Nov 19 14:41:25 2007