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Mike S.
Mike S.

Reputation: 2828

SVN import confusion

I downloaded the SVN source, got it installed and added to my path for easy access. So far, so good.

svn --version
svn, version 1.6.6 (r40053)
   compiled Oct 22 2009, 14:13:09

Reading the documentation (that everyone will want to point me to anyway), it instructs me to create a project:

svnadmin create tdl

Then, to add an unversioned copy of code, execute

svn import tdl file:///Users/webdev/Documents/dev/svn/tdl

What occurred next stumped me. I get an emacs terminal that looks like this: screencap http://files.me.com/mjstelly/1ke13o

I have no idea what to make of this. I thought I did something wrong. So I closed the terminal and tried again. Same thing.

Has anyone experienced this before? If so, what the heck am I doing wrong?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1608

Answers (4)

Jim Lewis
Jim Lewis

Reputation: 45115

SVN is invoking your default EDITOR (which for you, appears to be emacs) so you can write the commit log message. You can stop this by using the "-m" option to specify the commit message on the "svn import" command line.

Upvotes: 1

Schwern
Schwern

Reputation: 165536

It wants you to write a log entry for this commit. Something like "Importing the project". It'll do this for every commit.

Upvotes: 0

nanda
nanda

Reputation: 24788

It's asking for a comment from you regarding this import. NOrmally people just write "Initial commit" and then out from the text editor.

Upvotes: 0

Alberto Zaccagni
Alberto Zaccagni

Reputation: 31590

In that emacs terminal type the message of the import, for example:

First commit, base project structure

...then save it and the svn import will take place.

Upvotes: 1

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