Question

I have setup subversion 1.6.5 on Fedora.
I have decided to use a single repository for multiple projects. I have added one project, projA, to the repository. I will have more projects to add to the repository in future.

If I try to add next project with the command
‘svn import . file:///path/to/repos’ gives
svn: File already exists: filesystem ‘/usr/local/svn-repos/proj-test/db’, transa
ction ‘1-1’, path ‘/trunk’.
The new projB is being added to the trunk directory of projA.

I have read the section “Adding Projects” in
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch05s04.html
In that book, projects are added at once. But,I would like to add them one by one as new projects become ready to go. What is the proper command and/or how that can be done?

Thanks.
Banani

Answer 1

A repository is just a tree of files. If you wanted to have two projects in one repo (why you’d want this, I’ll never understand), you would do the following:

$ mkdir repo
$ svnadmin create repo
$ cd /path/to/projectA
$ svn import -m "importing project A" . file:///path/to/repo/projectA/trunk
$ cd /path/to/projectB
$ svn import -m "importing project B" . file:///path/to/repo/projectB/trunk

go check out your project somewhere:

$ svn co file:///path/to/repo

and you should get a tree like:

repo/
repo/projectA
repo/projectA/trunk
repo/projectB
repo/projectB/trunk