SVN in-place import and checkout

Question

Using the Linux command line and Subversion, is it possible to take a directory and add version control to it?

Basically, I want to import the directory into a newly cre

Answer 1

Let's say you've used svnadmin to create a repository at /svn/foo/mydirname, and you want to version control /home/user/mydirname (is that what you mean?).

Then do the following:

cd /home/user/mydirname
svn co file:///svn/foo/mydirname . #This only creates the ".svn" folder for version control
svn add ./*                        #Tell svn you want to version control all files in this dir
svn ci                             #Check the files in

Your directory is now version controlled!