Re: checkout on existing directory structure

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 09:35, <kovlensky_at_interia.pl> wrote:
> Scenario - files/directories are added to svn by svn import. Further updates require svn commit. To commit, svn must be checkouted first. How to checkout imported structure on existing files/dirs structure?
>
> Example: svn holds a file, let's say a/b/c/d.txt. File /x/a/b/c/d.txt exists on filesystem. As the file was just imported to svn both disk and svn file match. What should I do to get equivalent of svn checkout in /x directory having files/dirs present, but unversioned, on filesystem? The final result I need are all files/dirs in svn versioned (i.e. .svn dirs appers) and all remaining files (i.e. unversioned) left intact.

http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#in-place-import

> I hope there is a way. I really really really cannot wipe this system or files out even for a moment.

I can't believe you don't have a single moment of scheduled
downtime/maintenance window you could do it in.

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Received on 2009-05-29 15:48:20 CEST