"# svn mkdir file:///root/svn-repository/etc \ -m ""Make a directory in the repository to correspond to /etc"" # cd /etc # svn checkout file:///root/svn-repository/etc . # svn add apache samba alsa X11 # svn commit -m ""Initial version of my config files""
This takes advantage of a not-immediately-obvious feature of svn checkout: you can check out a directory from the repository directly into an existing directory. Here, we first make a new empty directory in the repository, and then check it out into /etc, transforming /etc into a working copy. Once that is done, you can use normal svn add commands to select files and subtrees to add to the repository.
