svn import

[Mark Eaton <me...@vasco.com>]

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Is it just me or does the svn import command not work as expected ?

I tend to do imports of new trees every so often and almost without faliure I 
get it wrong every single time.

ie if I have a tree

proj
    file1
    file2
    subdir1
       ....

I always end up doing a
svn import proj $SVNROOT/trunk/

which means I then have to go and move all the files around in the repository.
I would expect if I import a directory as above it would create the repository 
path $SVNROOT/trunk/proj and all the subdirectories / files but rather it 
imports everything under the proj directory but not the proj directory.

If I am the only one who thinks this works wrong then I'll just shut up =) but 
it doesn't seem intuitive to me.

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Mark Eaton
Senior Software Engineer
VASCO The Authentication Company
+67 3511 5404
meaton@vasco.com
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Re: svn import

[John Peacock <jp...@rowman.com>]

Mark Eaton wrote:

> I always end up doing a
> svn import proj $SVNROOT/trunk/

However

	svn import proj $SVNROOT/trunk/proj

should work as you expected.

> If I am the only one who thinks this works wrong then I'll just shut up =) but 
> it doesn't seem intuitive to me.

I have been bitten by this as well, but then I realized/remembered that import 
(unlike other commands that affect the repository) will create as many 
intervening directories in the target.

Most Unix tools (like cp and mv), when passed a directory as both the source and 
destination, will create the source directory in the target for you (assuming 
that was what you meant).  However, 'svn import' acts more like this:

	svn import proj/* $SVNROOT/trunk/

which is [mildly] suprising the first couple of times.  You'll get over it. ;~)

John

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John Peacock
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