Force an SVN checkout command to overwrite current files

Question

I m adding an existing site to SVN   The files already exist on the webserver  and now identical copies  - configuration files  exist in the repository   I want to convert the webserver directory into an SVN working copy  but when I run   svn checkout http   path to svn repo httpdocs     I get the error      svn  Failed to add file     object of the same name already exists   How do I tell SVN to just overwrite those files whose contents are the same

User · Accepted Answer

Try the --force option  svn help checkout gives the details

User · Answer

svn checkout --force svn   repo website dir  then  svn revert -R website dir  Will check out on top of existing files in website dir  but not overwrite them  Then the revert will overwrite them  This way you do not need to take the site down to complete it

User · Answer

Pull from the repository to a new directory  then rename the old one to old crufty  and the new one to my real webserver directory  and you re good to go   If your intention is that every single file is in SVN  then this is a good way to test your theory  If your intention is that some files are not in SVN  then use Brian s copy paste technique

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Pull from the repository to a new directory  then rename the old one to old crufty  and the new one to my real webserver directory  and you re good to go   If your intention is that every single file is in SVN  then this is a good way to test your theory  If your intention is that some files are not in SVN  then use Brian s copy paste technique

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I did not have 1 5 available to me  because I am not in control of the computer  The file that was causing me a problem happened to be a  jar file in the lib directory  Here is what I did to solve the problem   rm -rf lib svn up   This builds on Ned s answer  That is  I just removed the sub directory that was causing me a problem rather than the entire repository

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I did not have 1 5 available to me  because I am not in control of the computer  The file that was causing me a problem happened to be a  jar file in the lib directory  Here is what I did to solve the problem   rm -rf lib svn up   This builds on Ned s answer  That is  I just removed the sub directory that was causing me a problem rather than the entire repository

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This can be done pretty easily  All I did was move the existing directory  not under version control  to a temporary directory  Then I checked out the SVN version to my correct directory name  copied the files from the temporary directory into the SVN directory  and reverted the files in the SVN directory  If that does not make sense there is an example below    usr local www  mv www temp www svn co http   www yourrepo com therepo www cp -pR   temp www     www svn revert -R   www   svn update   I hope this helps and am not sure why just a simple SVN update did not change the files back

User · Answer

svn checkout --force svn   repo website dir  then  svn revert -R website dir  Will check out on top of existing files in website dir  but not overwrite them  Then the revert will overwrite them  This way you do not need to take the site down to complete it

User · Answer

Pull from the repository to a new directory  then rename the old one to old crufty  and the new one to my real webserver directory  and you re good to go   If your intention is that every single file is in SVN  then this is a good way to test your theory  If your intention is that some files are not in SVN  then use Brian s copy paste technique

User · Answer

Pull from the repository to a new directory  then rename the old one to old crufty  and the new one to my real webserver directory  and you re good to go   If your intention is that every single file is in SVN  then this is a good way to test your theory  If your intention is that some files are not in SVN  then use Brian s copy paste technique

User · Answer

This can be done pretty easily  All I did was move the existing directory  not under version control  to a temporary directory  Then I checked out the SVN version to my correct directory name  copied the files from the temporary directory into the SVN directory  and reverted the files in the SVN directory  If that does not make sense there is an example below    usr local www  mv www temp www svn co http   www yourrepo com therepo www cp -pR   temp www     www svn revert -R   www   svn update   I hope this helps and am not sure why just a simple SVN update did not change the files back

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