On Jan 3, 2008, at 2:11 PM, Erik Huelsmann wrote:
> On Jan 3, 2008 7:36 PM, James <excess_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> I thought this might have been an obvious necessity (yet google has
>> gotten
>> me no where) but is there any way to get a .svn directory if its
>> accidently
>> been modified or removed? For example say I had a large project
>> with upwards
>> of 1000 files and I accidently deleted the root .svn directory. Do
>> I really
>> need to re-checkout the entire project (with all its files) just to
>> fix the
>> missing .svn directory?
>>
>> I've tried doing a svn checkout in the non-versioned directory
>> hoping svn
>> would be able to re-create the missing .svn directories but instead
>> it just
>> gives me an error stating "svn: Failed to add directory 'XXX':
>> object of the
>> same name already exists". If only I could tell it to ignore those
>> directories/files... am I doing something wrong here?
>
>
> This is a feature provided by Subversion 1.5 (which is yet to be
> released).
Just curious - in this situation if I were to try 1.5, what would be
the command
that would restore the .svn dir. Is it 'svn co' or 'svn update'?
-Steve
>
>
> bye,
>
> Erik.
>
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