Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 17:00:46 +0000 (UTC) From: Warren Block <wblock@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r40658 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors Message-ID: <201301161700.r0GH0kCr015842@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: wblock Date: Wed Jan 16 17:00:46 2013 New Revision: 40658 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/40658 Log: Add a warning to rename or delete existing directories before an svn checkout. Also fix a missing comma. Submitted by: scottro (forums) Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors/chapter.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors/chapter.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors/chapter.xml Wed Jan 16 15:32:39 2013 (r40657) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors/chapter.xml Wed Jan 16 17:00:46 2013 (r40658) @@ -595,9 +595,18 @@ <sect2 id="svn-usage"> <title>Running <application>Subversion</application></title> - <para>The <command>svn</command> command can be used to fetch a - clean copy of the sources from a given repository by - typing:</para> + <para>The <command>svn</command> command is used to fetch a + clean copy of the sources into a local directory.</para> + <warning> + <para>If the local directory already exists but was not + created by <command>svn</command>, rename or delete it + before the checkout. Checkout over an existing + non-<command>svn</command> directory can cause conflicts + between the existing files and those brought in from the + repository.</para> + </warning> + + <para>Check out from a given repository by typing:</para> <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>svn checkout <literal>svn://svn.FreeBSD.org/<replaceable>repository</replaceable>/<replaceable>branch</replaceable></literal> <replaceable>root</replaceable></userinput></screen> @@ -606,7 +615,7 @@ <itemizedlist> <listitem> <para><replaceable>repository</replaceable> is one of the - Project repositories, i.e. <literal>base</literal>, + Project repositories, i.e., <literal>base</literal>, <literal>ports</literal>, or <literal>doc</literal>.</para> </listitem>
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