How to add an existing folder with files to SVN

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How do you add a folder without version control to a specific SVN location   I often start writing code and only after I have a few folders containing code files do I add it to SVN   What I usually do is    svn co the parent directory where I want to make a new folder to store my code  svn mkdir to make the directory I want to put my code in  Copy and paste my code over  svn commit  Delete my current working code directory  Re-create my working code directory using svn co

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I don t use commands   You should be able to do this using the GUI    Right-click an empty space in your My Documents folder  select TortoiseSVN   Repo-browser  Enter http   subversion     your URL path to your Subversion server directory you will save to  as your path and select OK Right-click the root directory in Repo and select Add folder   Give it the name of your project and create it  Right-click the project folder in the Repo-browser and select Checkout   The Checkout directory will be your Visual Studio Projects  your project  folder   Select OK  You will receive a warning that the folder is not empty   Say Yes to checkout export to that folder - it will not overwrite your project files  Open your project folder   You will see question marks on folders that are associated with your VS project that have not yet been added to Subversion   Select those folders using Ctrl   Click  then right-click one of the selected items and select TortoiseSVN   Add Select OK on the prompt Your files should add   Select OK on the Add Finished  dialog Right-click in an empty area of the folder and select Refresh   You   ll see         icons on the folders files  now Right-click an empty area in the folder once again and select SVN Commit Add a message regarding what you are committing and click OK

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In Windows 7 I did this    Have you installed SVN and Tortoise SVN  If not  Google them and do so now  Go to your SVN folder where you may have other repos  short for repository   or if you re creating one from scratch  choose a location C drive  D drive  etc or network path   Create a new folder to store your new repository  Call it the same name as your project title Right click the folder and choose Tortoise SVN -  Create Repository here Say yes to Create Folder Structure Click OK  You should see a new icon looking like a  wave  next to your new folder repo Right Click the new repo and choose SVN Repo Browser Right click  trunk  Choose ADD Folder    and point to your folder structure of your project in development  Click OK and SVN will ADD your folder structure in  Be patient  It looks like SVN has crashed frozen  Don t worry  It s doing its work    Done

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If the intention is adding the local working copy to SVN  I used to do it the following way   Note  I use the TortoiseSVN client and these steps assume that you already have the TortoiseSVN client installed    I have a project  Test-4 2 2  in my local  I want to upload add it to an SVN repository  Using the TortoiseSVN repo-browser  I created an empty directory   Test-4 2 2  In my local I renamed the existing  Test-4 2 2  directory to  Test-4 2 2 1   temporary  Checkout the empty  Test-4 2 2  from SVN to your local Copy all the sub-directories under 4 2 2 1 to this checkout directory 4 2 2 Now  right click  Test-4 2 2  and commit  Delete the temp folder   Test-4 2 2 1

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If I correctly understood your use case  I suggest to try using svn add to put the new folder under version  see here  The following will add the new folder with files recursively under version control  if you are inside valid working copy    svn add new folder svn commit -m  Add New folder to the project    If you are not in a working copy  create it with svn checkout  copy new folder there and do the above steps   OR  Try svn import  see here  the following will create a new folder and upload files to the repository   svn import -m  Import new folder to the project  new folder           http   SVN REPO repos trunk new folder   Also note that      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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3 Steps    Open  Repo Browser   Use Link of yr parent folder    Right click Choose  Add Folder   Browse to your folder

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Let s say I have code in the directory   local dir myNewApp  and I want to put it under  https   svn host existing path myNewApp   while being able to ignore some binaries  vendor libraries  etc      Create an empty folder in the repository svn mkdir https   svn host existing path myNewApp Go to the parent directory of the project  cd   local dir Check out the empty directory over your local folder  Don t be afraid - the files you have locally will not be deleted  svn co https   svn host existing path myNewApp  If your folder has a different name locally than in the repository  you must specify it as an additional argument  You can see that svn st will now show all your files as    which means that they are not currently under revision control Perform svn add on files you want to add to the repository  and add others to svn ignore  You may find some useful options with svn help add  for example --parents or --depth empty  when you want selectively add only some files folders  Commit with svn ci

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Let s try   It is working for me    svn add   --force

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