[nzlug] Re: svn - importing in-place

[Jim Cheetham]

On 18/06/07, Jim Cheetham <jim at gonzul.net> wrote:
> Does anyone have any svn tricks that will allow me to import and
> create a working copy in-place?

Thanks all, I guess I should have googled a little harder ...

http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#in-place-import

Thanks for the suggestions; in particular using rsync to refresh the
permissions was better than my find-based script. However I've never
been especially happy with renaming /etc (no-one guessed!) whilst the
machine is in use; even when lsof says that no-one is using it, you
never really know when a process will re-access it.

So the SVN FAQ recommends a different route - don't use 'svn import' at all ...

-jim