May be useful here: 'svn checkout --force' will take an existing tree
and make it into a working copy. (Preexisting files will show as
local mods when the command finishes.)
Les Mikesell wrote on Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 14:06:55 -0600:
> On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Peter Flynn <peter_at_silmaril.ie> wrote:
> >
> > I have created an svn repository on another host, and added all the files
> > from one user machine to it (some weeks ago), so everything was present but
> > unversioned. Since then, a few of those files have been manually edited on
> > that user machine, without checking them out, so the first question is, how
> > do I push those few files to the server so that the repository contains the
> > updated copies? If I use add or checkin, it fails on the first changed file,
> > saying it already exists:
>
> Check out a working copy, replace the files in it with the
> corresponding modified files and commit them. Better yet, make each
> of the users making the changes do this step themselves and add
> meaningful log messages, and then they can keep on working in their
> working copies and remove the original unversioned directory.
>
> --
> Les Mikesell
> lesmikesell_at_gmail.com
Received on 2012-03-05 21:56:40 CET