SVN import confusion

Question

I downloaded the SVN source, got it installed and added to my path for easy access. So far, so good.

svn --version
svn, version 1.6.6 (r40053)
   compiled Oct 22 2009, 14:13:09

Reading the documentation (that everyone will want to point me to anyway), it instructs me to create a project:

svnadmin create tdl

Then, to add an unversioned copy of code, execute

svn import tdl file:///Users/webdev/Documents/dev/svn/tdl

What occurred next stumped me. I get an emacs terminal that looks like this:

I have no idea what to make of this. I thought I did something wrong. So I closed the terminal and tried again. Same thing.

Has anyone experienced this before? If so, what the heck am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

In that emacs terminal type the message of the import, for example:

First commit, base project structure

...then save it and the svn import will take place.

Answer 2

It's asking for a comment from you regarding this import. NOrmally people just write "Initial commit" and then out from the text editor.

Answer 3

It wants you to write a log entry for this commit. Something like "Importing the project". It'll do this for every commit.

Answer 4

SVN is invoking your default EDITOR (which for you, appears to be emacs) so you can write the commit log message. You can stop this by using the "-m" option to specify the commit message on the "svn import" command line.