Dec 05
svn import
little rant of the day: why do we have to checkout our projects every time we import them to svn? why isn’t svn creating the .svn metafiles automatically? right, handling this with a bash script is not a big deal, but i’d like this to be a subversion feature… and I’m not talking about the time wasted to transfer all those files back and forth for nothing.
from http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.2/svn.ref.svn.c.import.html :
After importing data, note that the original tree is not under version control. To start working, you still need to svn checkout a fresh working copy of the tree.
February 25th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
True, that’s a little bit meaningless. Well… i’m working with relatively small projects but I could imagine what’s it when it comes to large projects.
You are talking about bash scripts - is there a way to create the .svn directory directly into the original tree?
Usually i checkout the project and after that i delete the original tree… but everytime that seemed meaningless to me.