Re: Path already exists

Ron Hi
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You need to add the file name you are importing as a postfix of the URL:
svn import -m "this will work" nothing.txt
file:///Users/ron/svn_test/nothing.txt.

Ron Olson wrote:
>
> Hi all-
>
> Sorry to be such a noob, but I haven't found a satisfactory answer
> anywhere via Google et al and this is intensely frustrating:
>
> I have created an svn repository both locally and remote to another
> machine where I alreadyh have Apache configured, and I get the same
> error every time:
>
> svn: Path 'file:///whatever' already exists
>
> Here's what I'm doing:
>
> $ svnadmin create /Users/ron/svn_test
> $ ls ./svn_test
> README.txt dav format locks
> conf db hooks
> $ vi nothing.txt
> <add a couple of lines to nothing.txt>
> $ svn import ./nothing.txt file:///Users/ron/svn_test -m "this will not
> work"
> svn: Path 'file:///Users/ron/svn_test' already exists
>
> This is all happening all of a sudden....I didn't upgrade svn, didn't
> touch my machine. To be honest, I haven't *created* a repo for awhile,
> I've just been happily working along but now I need to create some
> more and I'm getting this.
>
> This is on MacOS X 10.4 using svn 1.2.3 which I got as part of the
> Fink project.
>
> I'm sure I'm just doing something stupid, but the doubly stupid part
> is that I have no idea what. I verified against the FAQ and the book,
> but no joy.
>
> Ron
>
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