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Version Control with Subversion, 2nd Edition
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Version Control with Subversion, 2nd Edition

by C. Michael Pilato, Ben Collins-Sussman, Brian W. Fitzpatrick
September 2008
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
432 pages
13h 57m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Getting Data into Your Repository

You can get new files into your Subversion repository in two ways: svn import and svn add. We’ll discuss svn import now, and we’ll discuss svn add later in this chapter when we review a typical day with Subversion.

svn import

The svn import command is a quick way to copy an unversioned tree of files into a repository, creating intermediate directories as necessary. svn import doesn’t require a working copy, and your files are immediately committed to the repository. You typically use this when you have an existing tree of files that you want to begin tracking in your Subversion repository. For example:

$ svnadmin create /var/svn/newrepos
$ svn import mytree file:///var/svn/newrepos/some/project \
             -m "Initial import"
Adding         mytree/foo.c
Adding         mytree/bar.c
Adding         mytree/subdir
Adding         mytree/subdir/quux.h

Committed revision 1.

The example just shown copies the contents of directory mytree under the directory some/project in the repository:

$ svn list file:///var/svn/newrepos/some/project
bar.c
foo.c
subdir/

Note that after the import is finished, the original tree is not converted into a working copy. To start working, you still need to svn checkout a fresh working copy of the tree.

Recommended Repository Layout

While Subversion’s flexibility allows you to lay out your repository in any way that you choose, we recommend that you create a trunk directory to hold the main line of development, a branches directory to contain branch copies, and a tags directory ...

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