Question

Using the Linux command line and Subversion, is it possible to take a directory and add version control to it?

Basically, I want to import the directory into a newly created repository, but also have the directory be a working copy without having to check it out.

Answer 1

Let’s say you’ve used svnadmin to create a repository at /svn/foo/mydirname, and you want to version control /home/user/mydirname (is that what you mean?).

Then do the following:

cd /home/user/mydirname svn co file:///svn/foo/mydirname . #This only creates the '.svn' folder for version control svn add ./*                        #Tell svn you want to version control all files in this dir svn ci                             #Check the files in 

Your directory is now version controlled!