[haiku-development] Re: SVN commit access for Humdinger

On 2009-01-11 at 16:53:35 [+0100], Humdinger <humdingerb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> Stephan Aßmus wrote:
> 
> > what you could do is this:
> > 
> > * Make a backup copy of your current work and folder layout (make
> > absolutely sure you don't forget anything).
> > * Delete the folder in your tree.
> > * "svn update" in the parent folder of the folder(s) you deleted, this
> >  will restore everything as it is in the repo.
> > * Now "svn move" the old files to their new locations, you can also move
> > entire folders if need be until you have the same structure as in your
> > new work.
> > * copy the new files from your backup into the new folders, make sure
> > you don't accidentally copy ".svn" folders replacing the ones already
> > there, but replace any files already there.
> > * use "svn status" to see which files you have not yet added and "svn
> > add" them.
> 
> I did like you suggested and it almost worked as expected. Only, when I do 
> e.g. "svn move
> applications/ en/" it does move the folder "applications" and all its 
> containing files
> into the folder "en", but it still leaves (the now empty) original 
> "applications" folder
> behind.
> Is this expected behaviour?

Yep, it will disappear, when you have committed it (you have to commit both 
the old and the new directory).

> I couldn't commit these changes yet (maybe that would resolve that issue) 
> because for svn
> I'm not yet a valid member of the project, it appears. Or do I have to 
> initiate a secret
> handshake before the first commit?

Nope, you just hadn't been added as project member yet. Should work now.

CU, Ingo

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