PAIRIS Thibault wrote:
>
>
> Hello all,
>
> I am upgrading a CVS server to SVN (clients and servers are all on
> Windows). I used cvs2svn to convert the CVS repository to SVN
> architecture. All went smooth except for one thing. For tidiness’ sake,
> all the files and directories that were at the root of the architecture
> (it is an internal website) were put in a subdirectory (“root”). When
> clients checked out the CVS repository, something moved the files from
> the root subdirectory to the real root, so the client had a working
> website architecture.
>
> Now I have looked for the trick that does this in CVSNT, but I can’t
> find it. Neither do I in SVN. I have succeeded in getting the correct
> website architecture in SVN by manually moving all the files from the
> root directory to the real root, but I am a bit embarrassed by this
> solution as it modifies the original structure of the repository.
>
> Is there a way to do this exact same thing in SVN, having a different
> repository architecture from what the clients get when they actually
> check it out ? Or is the database-based architecture of SVN makes this
> sort of trick useless anyway ?
You could just check out the subdirectory for the working copies. An
awful lot of SVN working copies do this. Instead of
http://server/repository/ being your URL, use http://server/repository/root/
Sam
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Received on 2008-09-09 18:33:52 CEST