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Subversion Setup

I'm quite lame, so I usually forget how to set up a Subversion repository every time I need one. Here's how to do it, assuming the project is called "proj" and already exists in /home/joel/Src/proj

 svnadmin create /home/joel/Src/svn-proj
 cd /home/joel/Src/proj
 mkdir trunk
 mv * trunk
 mkdir branches tags
 svn import /home/joel/Src/proj file:///home/joel/Src/svn-proj -m "initial import"
 cd /home/joel/Src
 rm -rf proj
 svn checkout file:///home/joel/Src/svn-proj/trunk proj

Oh, the trunk/branches/tags thing is optional - if you're only doing something straightforward such as managing configuration files on a single machine, you could get away with

 svnadmin create /home/joel/Src/svn-proj
 svn import /home/joel/Src/proj file:///home/joel/Src/svn-proj -m "initial import"
 cd /home/joel/Src
 rm -rf proj
 svn checkout file:///home/joel/Src/svn-proj/ proj