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jww
jww

Reputation: 102306

Create SVN controlled project in-situ

I have a project sitting in a archive. The project and files were provided by someone else. The project does not use a version control system. I want to unpack the project and adorn it with versioning. I want to do it in-place so I can make my changes and then svn diff to see my changes (and create a diff for a patch).

When I try to place versioning on the unpacked library, I get the following:

$ svnadmin create
svnadmin: E205000: Repository argument required

And:

$ svnadmin create .
svnadmin: E200011: Repository creation failed
svnadmin: E200011: Could not create top-level directory
svnadmin: E200011: '.' exists and is non-empty

And:

$ svnadmin create `pwd`
svnadmin: E200011: Repository creation failed
svnadmin: E200011: Could not create top-level directory
svnadmin: E200011: '/home/jeffrey/cryptlib-beta' exists and is non-empty

I don't want to set up an SVN server or jump through other hoops like checking out from myself (or other steps that make no sense to a regular user who is only concerned about changes/differences).

Is it possible to create a svn version controlled project in-situ? If so, would anyone know the commands?

Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2460

Answers (1)

Lazy Badger
Lazy Badger

Reputation: 97282

  1. You can't create repository in non-empty directory
  2. You can't avoid checkout from repository into Working Copy at least once
  3. You can don't setup any special SVN-server and use file:/// protocol to access repository

During setup you have to use three directories. Let name it SOURCE, REPO, WORK. Later you'll use only REPO and WORK

Process step-by-step

  • cd /SOME/PATH
  • mkdir SOURCE
  • Unpack archive into SOURCE
  • cd /SOME/ANOTHER/PATH
  • mkdir REPO
  • cd REPO
  • svnadmin create .
  • cd /SOME/PATH/SOURCE
  • svn import file:////SOME/ANOTHER/PATH/REPO -m "Initial Import"
  • cd /SOME/ANOTHER-AGAIN/PATH
  • mkdir WORK
  • cd WORK
  • svn co file:///SOME/ANOTHER/PATH/REPO .
  • rm -r /SOME/PATH/SOURCE

Edit files in WORK, diff it with base-version, if needed

Upvotes: 4

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