[wp-hackers] OT: Checkout SVN into another?

Alex Hempton-Smith hempsworth at googlemail.com
Sun Feb 15 01:07:52 GMT 2009


Hmm, thanks Jacob - I might have a problem though. The folder I want to
checkout into already exists because its created by the original repo. Any
ideas?

-- Alex


On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 1:02 AM, Jacob Santos <wordpress at santosj.name>wrote:

> You need to create a new directory and then checkout into that. As you've
> figured out, you can not checkout something that is in a separate repository
> into another repository. Subversion doesn't work like Git.
>
> Jacob Santos
>
> Alex Hempton-Smith wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> I'm trying to test out BuddyPress and I want to be able to update it all
>> (WPMU, BP and bbPress) using SVN.
>>
>> I've checked-out WPMU and installed it into the root of my test-site. Now
>> I
>> would like to check-out BP into the /wp-content/mu-plugins/ directory, but
>> I
>> get an error becuase the root is already a working copy.
>>
>> Here is my shell actions so far:
>>
>> cd ~/example.com
>> svn co http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress-mu/trunk .
>> (CHECKS OUT)
>> cd ~/example.comcontent/mu-plugins/
>> svn co http://svn.buddypress.org/trunk .
>>
>> But I get this error:
>>
>> svn: '.' is already a working copy of a different URL
>>
>> How would I go about having these two repos checked out? Is there any way
>> of
>> me including it as a remote repo?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Alex
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