Checking out .ssh directory

[Kevin T. Neely]

On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, martin f krafft wrote:

> also sprach Kevin T. Neely <ktneely at piglet.astroturfgarden.com> [2007.01.23.0531 +0000]:
>> I imported the .ssh directory earlier, but now when I try to
>> perform an update o nthe directory, it fails because there is
>> already an .ssh  directory there.  Same thing wwhen I try to blow
>> it away and then resume the update: svn+ssh:// of course creates
>> the directory as it authenticates with the server.
>
> it's a catch-22 situation. The way to work around it is:
>
>  mv .ssh/known_hosts ~
>  rm -rf .ssh
>  svn mkdir .ssh
>  mv known_hosts .ssh
>  svn add .ssh/known_hosts
>  svn up


Thank you!  I knew there had to be a workaround, but I'm still learning my 
way around svn.  Unfortunately, this did not quite work for me.  Note: I 
have already imported the .ssh dir and contents into my home dir 
repository.  I get the following:

ktneely at piglet:~$ svn mkdir .ssh/
A         .ssh
ktneely at piglet:~$ mv known_hosts .ssh/
ktneely at piglet:~$ svn add .ssh/known_hosts
A         .ssh/known_hosts
ktneely at piglet:~$ svn up
ktneely at piglet's password:
svn: Failed to add directory '.ssh': object of the same name already exists

Do I need to do a 'svn delete' directly on the .ssh directory in the 
repository?  When I say 'directly' I mean something like
'svn rm svn+ssh://piglet.../.ssh'

thanks,
K

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