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thepocketwade
Asked: 2009-07-31 08:37:56 +0800 CST

svn mkdir foo vs. mkdir foo; svn add foo

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I've seen in subversion tutorials that the way to add a folder to your repo is to do 

 mkdir foo
 svn add foo



But running  svn mkdir foo
does the same thing, as far as I can tell. Is there a reason to mkdir then add instead of svn mkdir?

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  1. Best Answer

    The difference is that svn mkdir can operate directly on a URL:

    svn mkdir svn://remote.host/what/ever

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  2. There's no functional different that I'm aware of.

    One is simply longer to type than the other and potentially you could forget to svn add if you got out of the habit of using svn mkdir.

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  3. Traditionally, applications that do version control don't manage file attributes. From this point "mkdir foo; svn add foo" can be more flexible in some scenarios.

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