I hate "svn help import"

[Kenneth Porter <sh...@sewingwitch.com>]

"svn import" bites me every time I use it. Today, I wanted to import the 
source tree for wxWidgets into my vendor tree. So I run wxMSW-2.8.0.exe to 
install it to d:\devel\wxWidgets-2.8.0. I cd to d:\devel and run:

cd d:\devel
svn import https://myserver/myrepo/vendor wxWidgets-2.8.0 -m "Import 
wxWidgets-2.8.0."

When it completes, I discover that instead of acting like "svn add" (which 
would have put everything under a new wxWidgets-2.8.0 subdirectory in the 
repo) it's dumped everything that was in that directory into my vendor 
directory in the repo. Ugh. Now I have to go clean it up.

Perhaps someone could suggest better wording for "svn help import" that 
would keep me from making this mistake again in 6 months.

Here's what's there now:

  If PATH is a directory, the contents of the directory are added
  directly under URL.

I'd suggest a parenthetic caution:

  If PATH is a directory, the contents of the directory (not the directory 
itself)
  are added directly under URL.

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Re: I hate "svn help import"

[Nathan Kidd <na...@spicycrypto.ca>]

This comment is tangental to your suggestion for better 'svn help 
import' wording, but I have, in 3+ years of using SVN to manage many 
projects and vendor branches, never once in my life used the "import" 
command.  IMO an in-place Add is simply better because you get to see 
exactly what you'll get *before* commiting. You can always 'svn co -N' 
if you want a sparse tree to add into.

-Nathan

Kenneth Porter wrote:
> "svn import" bites me every time I use it. Today, I wanted to import the 
> source tree for wxWidgets into my vendor tree. So I run wxMSW-2.8.0.exe 
> to install it to d:\devel\wxWidgets-2.8.0. I cd to d:\devel and run:
> 
> cd d:\devel
> svn import https://myserver/myrepo/vendor wxWidgets-2.8.0 -m "Import 
> wxWidgets-2.8.0."
> 
> When it completes, I discover that instead of acting like "svn add" 
> (which would have put everything under a new wxWidgets-2.8.0 
> subdirectory in the repo) it's dumped everything that was in that 
> directory into my vendor directory in the repo. Ugh. Now I have to go 
> clean it up.
> 
> Perhaps someone could suggest better wording for "svn help import" that 
> would keep me from making this mistake again in 6 months.
> 
> Here's what's there now:
> 
>  If PATH is a directory, the contents of the directory are added
>  directly under URL.
> 
> I'd suggest a parenthetic caution:
> 
>  If PATH is a directory, the contents of the directory (not the 
> directory itself)
>  are added directly under URL.

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