First you need a directory to house your repository. Since I work on multiple projects at home and in the office I need a master directory first. And just to make it simple I use /repos. This could be a link or a real directory.
(To clean-out a old svn directory use the following find . -name .svn -exec ‘rm -rf {}\;‘)
Step 1:
# create /repos
Step 2 (Create a repository):
# svnadmin create /repos/rails_project
Step 3 (Create rails specific directories):
# export REPOS=file:///repos/rails_project
# svn mkdir --message="Initial project layout" $REPOS/trunk $REPOS/tags $REPOS/branches
Step 4 (Initial Import of project):
# cd /rails_project
# svn import . file:///repos/rails_project/trunk -m "Initial Import..." */ This command import everything from the current directory to the svn server running locally using the file:/// structure */
Step 5 (check-out):
# svn co file:///repos/rails_project/trunk rails_project
# svn co svn://subversion_server/rails_project/trunk rails_project
Both of the above command will checkout the trunk of rails_project into a directory called rails_project.
Step 6 (Rails clean-up):
Go into the newly checked-out rails project
*/ Remove and Ignore the log files */
# svn remove log/*
# svn commit -m 'removing all log files from subversion'
# svn propset svn:ignore "*.log" log/
# svn update log/
# svn commit -m 'Ignoring all files in /log/ ending in .log */ Remove and Ignore tmp directory */
# svn remove tmp/*
# svn commit -m 'removing all tmp artifacts from subversion'
# svn propset svn:ignore "*" tmp/
# svn update tmp/
# svn commit -m "ignore tmp/ content from now on" */ Move the database config file to an example file and ignore */
# svn move config/database.yml config/database.example
# svn commit -m "Moving database.yml to database.example to provide a template for anyone who checks out the code"
# svn propset svn:ignore "database.yml" config/
# svn update config/
# svn commit -m "Ignoring database.yml"
