http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#in-place-import
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 11:22 AM, Tom Malia <tommalia_at_ttdsinc.com> wrote:
> If I've got a directory structure full of files and subdirectories that is
> not currently a working copy and for which there is no current repository or
> directory within a repository, what is the most efficient way to "import"
> the directory structure and turn it into a working copy?
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> I know I can import it, then delete the local copy and then check it out.
> However if there are lots of large files then this seems outrageously
> inefficient, since the checkout is going to nothing but pull down exactly
> what's there already any way. If I try checking out to the directory
> without purging it first, then Subversion complains that files with the same
> names are already present and it wont check out. Isn't there some way to
> perform a check out and tell Subversion to not replace, but also not error
> out on files with the same name that already exist?
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> Tom Malia
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> T&T Data Solutions L.L.C.
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