.svn folder is not getting created whenever i do a checkout

Question

i tried the following

1. svnadmin create svn_repos
2. svn import my_first_proj file:///c:/svn_repos -m "initial import"
3. svn checkout file:///c:/svn_repos

and the command returned

A    svn_repos\trunk
A    svn_repos\trunk\Sample.txt.txt
A    svn_repos\branches
A    svn_repos\branches\my_pers_branch
Checked out revision 1.

Yet the .svn folder was not created in the checked out folders. Because of which [I guess], I'm not able to do svn copy or svn merge.

Why does this occur? what is the problem? is there anything wrong in my commands

Answer 1

Are you sure it's not just hidden (they are by default)?

Try running dir /AH

Answer 2

What does 'svn status' say? If .svn is really missing, it will print something like:

svn: warning: '.' is not a working copy

Answer 3

Perhaps you're expecting to find that .svn directory inside the my_first_proj directory. Currently, your svn is checked out inside a "svn_repos" directory, relative to the path you typed in the checkout command. What you may want to do is :

svn checkout --force file:///c:/svn_repos/ my_first_proj

Which checks out a repository inside an existing directory. The usual approach is to checkout to another directory the first time, though.

Answer 4

On Windows Subversion might use hidden _svn directories instead of .svn in some situations.

This behavior is switched by the SVN_ASP_DOT_NET_HACK environment variable. See the Subversion documentation.

Answer 5

You haven't specified a path in your checkout so it's defaulted to the basename of the repository itself. In other words it operated as:

svn checkout file:///c:/svn_repos ./svn_repos

This has had the effect that it has checked out your working copy within the repository directory! If you look in the repository you should find trunk and branches directories and the rest of the files. It will behave as you expect if instead you do:

svnadmin create svn_repos
svn import my_first_proj file:///c:/svn_repos -m "initial import"
svn checkout file:///c:/svn_repos my_working_copy

Answer 6

Please provide some more details:

What directory are you in when you perform each command?

It looks to me like you may be checking out your project into the repository itself?

Also, what operating system are you using?