Question

I have a pretty large directory /var/www/ on my linux Ubuntu server. In that directory there are a handful of files I want to use subversion on. How can I set this up? Set-by-step would be helpful I’m new to svn.

So far I have don’t this:

svnadmin create --fs-type fsfs /svn
svn mkdir file:///svn/www/ -m "Created www directory"

For example: In my /var/www/ directory there are a lot of files and subdirectories. I only want to use svn on foo.html, bar.php, and a directory example/

after the necessary files are in the svn there how can I make changes and commit them to svn?

I hope that makes sense, thanks!

Answer 1

This should work:

REPO=file:///svn
cd /var/www
svn co $REPO/www .
svn add example foo.html bar.php
svn ci -m "initial checkin"
svn up

You might also want to do this (still in /var/www):

svn ps svn:ignore "*" .
svn ci -m "ignore other stuff"
svn up

Edit:
The svn:ignore pattern hides stuff in the output of svn status ONLY IF the item is unknown to svn and would show up as ?. You can still add files/dirs with “svn add” and changes to managed dirs/files are still tracked.

Since you are interested only in certain files/dirs this seems to be a good default in your case. You can do the same in example if there is stuff you don’t want to version.