[cse491] svn confusion

C. Titus Brown ctb at msu.edu
Fri Sep 11 16:46:33 PDT 2009


On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 05:16:51PM -0400, Phil Deschaine wrote:
-> OK, so I've checked out the right files from
-> http://class.ged.idyll.org/svn/files/hw1.  Now, how do I mark these files to
-> be added to MY repository?  I keep getting non-nonsensical errors.   I've
-> tried, for example, svn add http://class.ged.idyll.org/svn/deschai5/hw1.  No
-> dice.  It seems the only way to tell the terminal about a repository is to
-> check something out.  But I don't want to check anything out of my
-> repository, I want to add stuff.  Help.

Hi Phil,

check out the svn/files/ directory into one working copy, say

	~/cse491-files/

and check out your repository into another working copy, say

	~/cse491/

now, copy any files you want from ~/cse491-files/ into ~/cse491/ --
files, but not directories -- and svn add them.

For example,

	cp ~/cse491-files/hw1/form.html ~/cse491/hw1/form.html

and then do

	cd ~/cse491/hw1/
	svn add form.html

Hope that helps!

cheers,
--titus
-- 
C. Titus Brown, ctb at msu.edu



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