initialize repository

Submitted by mark on Thu, 2007-01-04 21:35.

	CVS vs. Subversion		Comment
Create Repository	CVS	cvs -d path init	repository is a directory path for the svnadmin command, the other command, svn, will use the URL syntax.
Create Repository	Subversion	svnadmin create repository
Import Sources	CVS	cd src cvs -d repository import module vendortag releasetag	Subversion doesn't know of tags or branches. Instead you use the 'snv copy' command to create a copy of the directory you want to preserve. Subversion takes care that this is efficient. Because of this its it suggested, that the root of your directory contains three directories: trunk: is where you store the main or HEAD branch tags: is where you copy the 'tags' to branches: is where you copy the 'branches' to
Import Sources	Subversion	svn mkdir file://repository/tags svn mkdir file://repository/branches svn import src file://repository/trunk or in case of a remote repository: svn mkdir https://repository/tags svn mkdir https://repository/branches svn import src https://repository/trunk
Checkout	CVS	cvs -d repository co [-d directory] module	Checkout of a file/directory from the repository. While CVS keeps its information within a CVS/ directory, Subversion uses a .svn/ directory which contains a complete copy of the checked out files. This will be used for comparation during the next commit which makes commits fast over slow network connections.
Checkout	Subversion	svn checkout file://repository/trunk module [directory]

Subversion comes with two different database backends: Berkley DB (BDB) and Filesystem Filesystem (FSFS). Berkley DB uses less space than FSFS but had some issues in that past which could corrupt the database because Subversion uses it in some unusual ways.

In case FSFS is not the default database backend, you can specify it manually:

svnadmin --fs-type fsfs create repository

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