Subversion commits not appearing in repo

Question

Good morning to all.

I am just starting with subversion and need some help.

I have setup a repo on my server for my web directory. Steps followed are:

svnadmin create /path/to/repo 

Then I import the project with:

svn import /my/webserver/dire file:///path/to/repo 

and start the server with

svnserve -d 

Everything works fine and I can download the repo from my client with:

svn co svn+ssh ://user@server:/path/to/repo 

Now on my client I edit foo.html and add a file called test. I add the file to svn with

svn add test. 

Finally I commit the changes with

svn commit. 

The log popups up with the changes and additions, I confirm and I get the message that test is being uploaded.

The problem is that when I log into the server and check /path/to/repo I do not find the new test file and the edited foo.html file.

Am new to subversion so I need some help. Thanks to all!

Answer 1

The copy at /path/to/repo is the repository itself, the structure of which only makes sense to subversion and will not directly contain the file you commit.

To have the server get copy of the contents of the repo, you will want to do a checkout on the server as well:

svn co file:///path/to/repo /path/to/checkout 

Then once changes are made by a client to the repo, you can bring the checked out copy up to current with..

svn up /path/to/checkout