<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>svn import</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="styles.css" /> <meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.76.1" /> <style type="text/css"> body { background-image: url('images/draft.png'); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: top left; /* The following properties make the watermark "fixed" on the page. */ /* I think that's just a bit too distracting for the reader... */ /* background-attachment: fixed; */ /* background-position: center center; */ }</style> <link rel="home" href="index.html" title="Version Control with Subversion [DRAFT]" /> <link rel="up" href="svn.ref.svn.html" title="svn Reference—Subversion Command-Line Client" /> <link rel="prev" href="svn.ref.svn.c.help.html" title="svn help (h, ?)" /> <link rel="next" href="svn.ref.svn.c.info.html" title="svn info" /> </head> <body> <div xmlns="" id="vcws-version-notice"> <p>This text is a work in progress—highly subject to change—and may not accurately describe any released version of the Apache™ Subversion® software. 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If <em class="replaceable"><code>PATH</code></em> is omitted, <span class="quote">“<span class="quote"><code class="filename">.</code></span>”</span> is assumed. Parent directories are created in the repository as necessary. Unversionable items such as device files and pipes are ignored even if <code class="option">--force</code> is specified.</p> </div> <div class="refsect1" title="Options"> <a id="idp20429392"></a> <h2>Options</h2> <div class="informalexample"> <pre class="screen"> <a class="xref" href="svn.ref.svn.html#svn.ref.svn.sw.auto_props"><code class="option">--auto-props</code></a> <a class="xref" href="svn.ref.svn.html#svn.ref.svn.sw.depth"><code class="option">--depth</code> <em class="replaceable"><code>ARG</code></em></a> <a class="xref" href="svn.ref.svn.html#svn.ref.svn.sw.editor_cmd"><code class="option">--editor-cmd</code> <em class="replaceable"><code>CMD</code></em></a> <a class="xref" href="svn.ref.svn.html#svn.ref.svn.sw.encoding"><code class="option">--encoding</code> <em class="replaceable"><code>ENC</code></em></a> <a class="xref" href="svn.ref.svn.html#svn.ref.svn.sw.file"><code class="option">--file</code> (<code class="option">-F</code>) <em class="replaceable"><code>FILENAME</code></em></a> <a class="xref" href="svn.ref.svn.html#svn.ref.svn.sw.force"><code class="option">--force</code></a> <a class="xref" href="svn.ref.svn.html#svn.ref.svn.sw.force_log"><code class="option">--force-log</code></a> <a class="xref" href="svn.ref.svn.html#svn.ref.svn.sw.message"><code class="option">--message</code> (<code class="option">-m</code>) <em class="replaceable"><code>MESSAGE</code></em></a> <a class="xref" href="svn.ref.svn.html#svn.ref.svn.sw.no_auto_props"><code class="option">--no-auto-props</code></a> <a class="xref" href="svn.ref.svn.html#svn.ref.svn.sw.no_ignore"><code class="option">--no-ignore</code></a> <a class="xref" href="svn.ref.svn.html#svn.ref.svn.sw.quiet"><code class="option">--quiet</code> (<code class="option">-q</code>)</a> <a class="xref" href="svn.ref.svn.html#svn.ref.svn.sw.with_revprop"><code class="option">--with-revprop</code> <em class="replaceable"><code>ARG</code></em></a> </pre> </div> </div> <div class="refsect1" title="Examples"> <a id="idp20439520"></a> <h2>Examples</h2> <p>This imports the local directory <code class="filename">myproj</code> into <code class="filename">trunk/misc</code> in your repository. The directory <code class="filename">trunk/misc</code> need not exist before you import into it—<span class="command"><strong>svn import</strong></span> will recursively create directories for you.</p> <div class="informalexample"> <pre class="screen"> $ svn import -m "New import" myproj \ http://svn.red-bean.com/repos/trunk/misc Adding myproj/sample.txt … Transmitting file data ......... Committed revision 16. </pre> </div> <p>Be aware that this will <span class="emphasis"><em>not</em></span> create a directory named <code class="filename">myproj</code> in the repository. If that's what you want, simply add <code class="filename">myproj</code> to the end of the URL:</p> <div class="informalexample"> <pre class="screen"> $ svn import -m "New import" myproj \ http://svn.red-bean.com/repos/trunk/misc/myproj Adding myproj/sample.txt … Transmitting file data ......... Committed revision 16. </pre> </div> <p>After importing data, note that the original tree is <span class="emphasis"><em>not</em></span> under version control. 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