RE: checkout on existing directory structure

Quoting Roger Lipscombe <rogerl_at_1e.com>:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: kovlensky_at_interia.pl [mailto:kovlensky_at_interia.pl]
> > Sent: Fri 29 May 2009 14:36
> > To: users_at_subversion.tigris.org
> > Subject: checkout on existing directory structure
> >
> > 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.

> Check out somewhere else; write a script to remove everything but
> the .svn directories; copy those over the top of your original (thus
> turning it into a working copy); commit.

Better:

   cd /x
   svn checkout $url --force

This will preserve existing files. Note that a real obstruction
(e.g., an incoming file onto an existing directory) will still cause
an error.

Steve

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