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[ILUG] Tip of the day: svn hackery

[ILUG] Tip of the day: svn hackery

CP Hennessy cp.hennessy at openapp.biz
Fri Aug 18 11:51:59 IST 2006


On Friday 18 August 2006 11:42, Stephen Shirley wrote:
> 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
This just means that svn is trying to checkout a dir named "srv" (as it now 
knows about it being an external) but since it is not registered in / as a 
svn external svn has a problem. 

Is it possible to move "srv" and do an update from "/" 

CPH



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