Question

I’ve run a command svn mkdir file:///home/abc/workspace/svn/proj/trunk, the thing is the trunk directory cannot be navigated when I run cd command. But, when I run svn checkout file:///home/abc/workspace/svn/, it gives the following:

A    svn/proj
A    svn/proj/trunk
Checked out revision 

How do I understand this, is it svn mkdir different from UNIX mkdir command?

Answer 1

It is different.

Running svn mkdir creates the directory in your project in the repository. When you checked out the project, svn put the new directory in your working copy.

If you ran mkdir alone, you would need to commit the new directory to the repository.

For reference: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.ref.svn.c.mkdir.html