[pmwiki-users] Subversion & existing installation

Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud at pobox.com
Mon Dec 12 14:11:26 CST 2005


On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 01:04:40PM -0700, H. Fox wrote:
> On 12/1/05, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 09:49:13AM -0600, Jon Haupt wrote:
> > >    Q: I have an existing installation and I want to move over 
> > >    to using SVN.  What's the best way of getting that going?
> 
> I installed Subversion over the weekend and discovered an easy way to do it.
> 
>     svn export svn://pmwiki.org/pmwiki/tags/latest pmwiki --force

Oh.  I had tried "--force" but it didn't work for me for some reason --
maybe I didn't have it in the correct place.


> For those two reasons, I think  `export' is much closer to what nearly
> all administrators would want.

I totally agree, and will change the PmWiki.Subversion instructions
to match.

Pm




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