Re: Help importing apache settings.

On Thursday 29 Apr 2010, j_dorocak wrote:
> Dear SVN folks,
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> I am trying to import the current status of my apache2 server directory
> structure into a repository.
>
> I get cut off after 2 successes:
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> Adding /home/jdor/webapps/pinax07server/apache2/logs
>
> Adding
> /home/jdor/webapps/pinax07server/apache2/logs/PrivateDoor_2009_05_06.log
>
> svn: Unknown or unversionable type for
> '/home/jdor/webapps/pinax07server/apache2/logs/wsgi.11484.0.1.sock'
>
>
>
> Are there any switches that will tell svn import to keep going, and just
> skip over that which is unversionable?
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> Thanks in advance.
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> Joe
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> Joe Dorocak
>
> email: j_dorocak_at_comcast.net

You can use the svn:ignore property to avoid adding certain files or
directories. This is a property set on directories or globally in the config
file, in your case I'd put it on the apache2 directory unless you feel you
need to version log files? For example, in the
directory /home/jdor/webapps/pinax07server/apache2 run the command

svn propset svn:ignore logs .

although, like me, you may prefer to use the propedit command without the logs
parameter as I find it easier when adding multiple entries.

All of this assumes you are adding to a working copy rather than importing. I
think you'll need to add entries to the config file if you want to do it from
a svn import. The redbook page
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.advanced.props.special.ignore.html
covers the ignoring files in much more detail, including how to do it from
the configuration files.

To me there isn't a big difference between adding and importing. All you need
to do for adding to a working copy is create an empty one and copy across the
apache directory. Then you can use the working copy commands to configure
exactly how you would like the files to be versioned without having to
cleanup mistakenly committed files such as the text log files.

Campbell

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