Question

I recently setup svn on a Windows 2003 server over ssh. I’m familiar with the developer end of svn, but I’ve never had to be the admin. The point of it is to allow remote development through visual studio. I have an existing directory with all files for my site that was not previously under version control. The site points to this directory, and so I do not want to move these files.

How do I create a repository and add all the existing files to it without having to move them?

Thanks

Answer 1

1st: create repository and its necessary branches/tags/trunk structure on server and make it available over network via apache or svnserve:

svnadmin create /opt/svn/myrepo
svn mkdir file:///opt/svn/myrepo/trunk -m "creating repo structure"
svnserve -d -r /opt/svn/

2nd: check out repositories target folder(eg trunk) into your topmost directory of your source code:

svn co http://[YOUR_SERVER]/myrepo/trunk c:\development\myproject\src

3rd: commit source code into repository as initial import

svn commit -m "initial import of myproject"

You can also use the svn import command, however this one will allow you to continue your development without another check out of your source code.

Also note that I did not create the full repository structure because of brevity, usually you would do this by creating the top level folder and using svn import