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

This can be done pretty easily. All I did was move the existing directory, not under version control, to a temporary directory. Then I checked out the SVN version to my correct directory name, copied the files from the temporary directory into the SVN directory, and reverted the files in the SVN directory. If that does not make sense there is an example below:

/usr/local/www

mv www temp_www
svn co http://www.yourrepo.com/therepo www
cp -pR ./temp_www/* ./www
svn revert -R ./www/*
svn update

I hope this helps and am not sure why just a simple SVN update did not change the files back?