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in reply to Re^2: Learning How to Use CVS for Personal Perl Coding Practices
in thread Learning How to Use CVS for Personal Perl Coding Practices

Import (like commit) needs a log message. I'd use the -m switch on the import. (Although you can define the editor and enter the log message using it.)

svn import . file:///~/subversion -m "Initial import"

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Re^4: Learning How to Use CVS for Personal Perl Coding Practices
by neversaint (Deacon) on Nov 03, 2005 at 16:37 UTC
    Hi Rhose,

    I tried this:
    svn import . file:///~/subversion/Project1 -m "Initial import"
    But it gave:
    svn: Unrecognized URL scheme 'file:///~/subversion/Project1'


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    neversaint and everlastingly indebted.......

      Yeah, you need to give the full path, e.g.

      svn import . file:///home/neversaint/subversion/Project1 -m "Initial i +mport"
      Regarding the $EDITOR variable, you should set that to your favourite editor
      export EDITOR=/usr/bin/emacs
      or
      export EDITOR=/usr/bin/vi
      then you can specify the subversion commands without the -m and have it call the editor for manual message entry automatically if you prefer. Add the line to .bashrc to have it done for you automatically when you log in.

      Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. -- Brian W. Kernighan
      I have no experience using file: as I work with the daemon. However, I ran a quick test on another machine, and this worked.

      cd /home/rhose/tmp svnadmin create demo cd samples svn import . file:///home/rhose/tmp/demo -m "Initial import"

      I tried it as:

      svn import . file:///~/tmp/demo -m "Initial import"

      and I got the same error you are getting... looks like you need to specify the path to your home directory.

      Update

      Yeah, what tirwhan said. *Smiles* At least I had a reason to play with file: for a bit.