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[ILUG] Tip of the day: svn hackery

[ILUG] Tip of the day: svn hackery

Stephen Shirley diamond at skynet.ie
Fri Aug 18 11:42:13 IST 2006


On 18/08/06, Kae Verens <kae at verens.com> wrote:
> instead of checking out /boot and /etc, followed by /, can you not just forgo
> the first two and simply check out / ?

No, as svn will bail out with errors such as:

svn: Failed to add directory 'srv': object of the same name already exists

You can do a non-recursive checkout of /, but that leads to the issue
that my original mail is one solution to.

Steve
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