Re^2: Learning How to Use CVS for Personal Perl Coding Practices

Dear tirwhan,
Let me make myself clear again. Please bear with me. Suppose I have the following directory which contain a file (myperlcode.pl) which I want to store them with SVN.

  ~/MyPerl
     |
     |__Project1
           |
           |__ myperlcode.pl


Note: ~/ = home/neversaint
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Following your advice what I tried to do is following steps.

Step 1: Creating a subversion main repository and repository related to Project1

home/neversaint $ mkdir subversion
home/neversaint $ cd subversion
home/neversaint/subversion $ svnadmin create Project1
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Listing them:

home/neversaint/subversion $ cd Project1
home/neversaint/subversion/Project1 $ ls
README.txt  conf  dav  db  format  hooks  locks
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Step 2: Attempting to create empty repository

home/neversaint/subversion $ cd ~/MyPerl/Project1
home/neversaint/MyPerl/Project1 $ svn import . file:///~/subversion/Pr
+oject1
                                                 ^
                                                 |
Note: did I get this right? ---------------------|
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Now, at this point I encounter problem with this message:

svn: Could not use external editor to fetch log message; consider<br> 
setting the $SVN_EDITOR environment variable or using the 
--message (-m) or --file (-F) options
svn: None of the environment variables SVN_EDITOR, VISUAL or 
EDITOR is set, and no 'editor-cmd' run-time configuration option was 
found
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Is there anything wrong with my steps above? Did I misunderstood your advice above? Hope to hear from you again.

---
neversaint and everlastingly indebted.......

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Re^3: Learning How to Use CVS for Personal Perl Coding Practices by Rhose (Priest) on Nov 03, 2005 at 16:30 UTC
Import (like commit) needs a log message. I'd use the -m switch on the import. (Although you can define the editor and enter the log message using it.) `svn import . file:///~/subversion -m "Initial import"`	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: Learning How to Use CVS for Personal Perl Coding Practices by neversaint (Deacon) on Nov 03, 2005 at 16:37 UTC
Hi Rhose, I tried this: `svn import . file:///~/subversion/Project1 -m "Initial import"` [download] But it gave: `svn: Unrecognized URL scheme 'file:///~/subversion/Project1'` [download] --- neversaint and everlastingly indebted.......	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^5: Learning How to Use CVS for Personal Perl Coding Practices by tirwhan (Abbot) on Nov 03, 2005 at 16:46 UTC
Yeah, you need to give the full path, e.g. `svn import . file:///home/neversaint/subversion/Project1 -m "Initial i +mport"` [download] Regarding the $EDITOR variable, you should set that to your favourite editor `export EDITOR=/usr/bin/emacs` [download] or `export EDITOR=/usr/bin/vi` [download] then you can specify the subversion commands without the -m and have it call the editor for manual message entry automatically if you prefer. Add the line to .bashrc to have it done for you automatically when you log in. Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. -- Brian W. Kernighan	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^5: Learning How to Use CVS for Personal Perl Coding Practices by Rhose (Priest) on Nov 03, 2005 at 16:56 UTC
I have no experience using file: as I work with the daemon. However, I ran a quick test on another machine, and this worked. `cd /home/rhose/tmp svnadmin create demo cd samples svn import . file:///home/rhose/tmp/demo -m "Initial import"` [download] I tried it as: `svn import . file:///~/tmp/demo -m "Initial import"` and I got the same error you are getting... looks like you need to specify the path to your home directory. Update Yeah, what tirwhan said. Smiles At least I had a reason to play with file: for a bit.	[reply] [d/l] [select]