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I have been working on a Django project, and I decided that it needed some version control. I have an SVN server running on another machine, and I wanted to import that code into my SVN repository. I am developing on Ubuntu and my SVN server is a remote OS X machine.

I went into my Django project on my development machine, ~/django_projects/myproject, and ran the following command: svn import svn+ssh://[email protected]/path/to/svn/repo. The result was a whole bunch of files that were added.

Then I modified a couple of files and tried to do a check in: svn ci.

That command gave the following error message: svn: 'path/to/svn/repo' is not a working copy.

What did I do wrong? How do I get my stuff checked into SVN so that I can do proper version control?

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This is because svn import doesn't create a working copy. To fix this, perform these steps:

  • first back up your modified files, just in case.
  • Run svn co --force svn+ssh://[email protected]/path/to/svn/repo/path/to/import /path/to/wc where path/to/wc is the root where you want to create your working copy. This checks out the path in the repository to the path you specify as working copy location. The --force parameter will continue checking out even if file present in the repository are already in the working copy. It will not overwrite them
  • Run svn status /path/to/wc to verify the files indicates as modified are the ones you meant to change
  • Run svn ci
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Small point of confusion, the remote svn repository has a different name than the local directory. SVN Co wants to build a local directory with the same name as the repository. Can you make svn co to a custom or existing directory name?
Synopsis svn checkout URL... [PATH] Description Check out a working copy from a repository. If PATH is omitted, the basename of the URL will be used as the destination. If multiple URLs are given each will be checked out into a subdirectory of PATH, with the name of the subdirectory being the basename of the URL.
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The hint is in the spec: After importing data, note that the original tree is not under version control. To start working, you still need to svn checkout a fresh working copy of the tree.

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