Force an SVN checkout command to overwrite current files

Question

I\'m adding an existing site to SVN.

The files already exist on the webserver, and now identical copies (- configuration files) exist in the repository.

I wa

Answer 1

svn checkout --force svn://repo website.dir

then

svn revert -R website.dir

Will check out on top of existing files in website.dir, but not overwrite them. Then the revert will overwrite them. This way you do not need to take the site down to complete it.