# I have problem and/or not fully underestand rails --svn **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [December 30, 2005, 4:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/i-have-problem-and-or-not-fully-underestand-rails-svn/51383 "2005-12-30T16:05:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![radek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e19adc/32.png) [@radek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/radek)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2005, 4:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/i-have-problem-and-or-not-fully-underestand-rails-svn/51383/1 "2005-12-30T16:05:57Z")
I experimented with rails --svn option. I use following commands 1 $ su root “mkdir -p /var/lib/svn/projekt; chown radek:radek /var/lib/svn/projekt” 2 Password:heslo roota 3 $ svnadmin create /var/lib/svn/projekt 4 $ mkdir -p /tmp/projekt/trunk 5 $ svn import -m “Creating empty project projekt” /tmp/projekt file:///var/lib/svn/projekt 6 //var/lib/svn/pokus 7 Adding /tmp/projekt/trunk 8 9 Committed revision 1. 10 $ rm -r /tmp/projekt 11 $ svn checkout file:///var/lib/svn/projekt/trunk /tmp/projekt/rev1 12 Checked out revision 1. 13 $ rails --svn /tmp/projekt/rev1 14 svn: ‘.’ is not a working copy 15 svn: ‘.’ is not a working copy 16 exists 17 create app/controllers 18 svn: ‘/tmp/pokus/rev1/app’ is not a working copy 19 create app/helpers 20 svn: ‘/tmp/pokus/rev1/app’ is not a working copy 21 create app/models 22 svn: ‘/tmp/pokus/rev1/app’ is not a working copy 23 create app/views/layouts 24 svn: ‘/tmp/pokus/rev1/app/views’ is not a working copy 25 create config/environments 26 svn: ‘/tmp/pokus/rev1/config’ is not a working copy 27 create components 28 A /tmp/pokus/rev1/components 29 create db 30 A /tmp/pokus/rev1/db 31 create doc But as you can see, the rails --svn added few files to svn. What I’m doing wrong. What is --svn option for. The actual version is on [http://www.hnilica.cz/book/ruby/rails.svn.create-project.html](http://www.hnilica.cz/book/ruby/rails.svn.create-project.html) # – Radek Hnilica [http://www.hnilica.cz](http://www.hnilica.cz) No matter how far down the wrong road you’ve gone, turn back. Turkish proverb … so turn back … Now! ---
**Author:** ![radek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e19adc/32.png) [@radek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/radek)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2005, 4:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/i-have-problem-and-or-not-fully-underestand-rails-svn/51383/2 "2005-12-30T16:21:34Z")
> 14 svn: ‘.’ is not a working copy ## That should tell you the current directory is not a working copy. It doesn’t make the directory a working copy if you import it. You have to check the project out somewhere, and then --svn should work. rick [http://techno-weenie.net](http://techno-weenie.net) ---
**Author:** ![radek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e19adc/32.png) [@radek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/radek)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2005, 4:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/i-have-problem-and-or-not-fully-underestand-rails-svn/51383/3 "2005-12-30T16:34:00Z")
On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 09:18:53AM -0600, Rick O. wrote: > > 14 svn: ‘.’ is not a working copy > > That should tell you the current directory is not a working copy. It > doesn’t make the directory a working copy if you import it. You have > to check the project out somewhere, and then --svn should work. hmmm… and what’s line 11 11 $ svn checkout file:///var/lib/svn/projekt/trunk /tmp/projekt/rev1 12 Checked out revision 1. If I try cd to working copy and then rails --svn . The first two errors (lines 14,15) wanished, but the rest is still here. # – Radek Hnilica [http://www.hnilica.cz](http://www.hnilica.cz) No matter how far down the wrong road you’ve gone, turn back. Turkish proverb … so turn back … Now!