Offtopic svn tricks (was: A proposed Subversion vision and roadmap) [LWN.net]

Offtopic svn tricks (was: A proposed Subversion vision and roadmap)

Posted Apr 4, 2010 7:35 UTC (Sun) by fperrin (guest, #61941)
In reply to: Offtopic svn tricks (was: A proposed Subversion vision and roadmap) by cesarb
Parent article: A proposed Subversion vision and roadmap

cesarb:
> You do not need to copy your files to the empty working copy, you can just _move_ the
> hidden .svn directory from the empty working copy to where you are already working and
> rmdir the now-empty directory.

Or even simpler, as I did in my exemple, just "svn co file:///$PWD/SVN ." while being in the
directory where you just untar'd the original source. (Or use emacs and `vc-create-repo'.)

heipei:
>Another tiny thing: Your example doesn't work (for me), since SVN is too stupid to
> recognize files without file:/// prepended.

Yep, I forgot about that. As I did above, replace the checkout step with "svn co file:///$PWD/SVN ."

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