You cannot manipulate the actual file system of your repository using your OS commands.
Create the empty repository then use svn mkdir to create folders in the repository. You only see the content of a repository using SVN client. > On Jul 14, 2014, at 9:21 AM, Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> wrote: > > Running 1.7.16 on Slackware-14.1. I used svn about a decade ago and am now > starting a new project and want to start fresh with the tool. I've read the > book, particularly Chapters 2 and 5 several times and still have questions > whose answers I don't find in the book. > > The repository is located in ~/development/svn-repos/. Following the > section "Planning Your Repository Organization" in Chapter 5 I created two > project root directories which I'll call project-A/ and project-B/. Under > each of these I created the subdirectories of branches/, tags/, and trunks/. > However, running 'svnadmin create ~/development/svn-repos/' from > ~/development failed because the directory existed so I removed the > svn-repos/ subdirectory and re-ran the svnadmin create command. Then I > recreated the two project subdirectories (root, branches, tags, and trunk). > > When I run 'svnlook info file:///home/rshepard/development/svn-repos/' > this error is reported: > > svnlook: E000002: Can't open file > 'file:/home/rshepard/development/svn-repos/format': No such file or > directory > > Yet, that file is present: > > ls svn-repos/ > README.txt conf/ db/ project-A/ format hooks/ locks/ project-B/ > > Is this error generated because I've not yet imported either project? > > To import the current code for each project, I assume that I need to cd to > that project's subdirectory before running 'svn import'. When I specify the > repository location with > file:///home/rshepard/development/svn-repos/project-?/ do I also need to > specify the trunk/ subdirectory? > > When I clarify how to get the repository directory structure correct, and > use the correct syntax to populate each project's repository, I will use > that same syntax to checkout and commit changes to each project. > > Rich >
