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spock99
spock99

Reputation: 1184

Error on copying subversion folder to another repository

I have Project A checked into one subversion repository.

I have Project B checked into a different repository.

Not thinking, I copied several subdirectories on my local machine from Project A to Project B (some image/css/js directories). I work on Mac OSX and the copy included the hidden subversion files.

Now when I checkin my entire Project B I get prompted for the login information for Project A. The login always fails (since it's a different repository). I've tried a cleanup but that didn't help. I can't checkout a clean copy of Project B because I had files in it that weren't checked in prior to copying the new subfolders.

What are my options to fix the problem?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 42

Answers (1)

David W.
David W.

Reputation: 107090

Subversion stores its information is .svn directories. In pre-1.7, these were in each folder. In 1.7 and above, they are in the root folder. Once all the .svn files are deleted, the folder will contain absolutely no Subversion information. However, these .svn folders tend to be invisible in the Finder.

If you want to see the .svn folders in Finder, open the Terminal app, and type in the following commands:

$ defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
$ killall Finder

This will restart Finder, and show you the .svn files.

If you are familiar with the command line, you can use the find command to find the folders and delete them:

$ find . -name ".svn" -type d -exec rm -rf {} \;

If you don't know Unix and BASH, you should get a good book on Unix command line commands and BASH. The Mac is a true Unix system and has all of the power of Unix. If you install the Command Line Utilities, you will get all of the most popular open source tools. I also recommend learning VIM. It's a bit archaic, but is probably the most powerful programming editor out there. And, it's a standard editor on Linux, Unix, and Mac.

Upvotes: 1

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