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3 <sect1 id="tsvn-dug-export">
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4 <title>Exporting a Subversion Working Copy</title>
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6 <primary>export</primary>
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9 <primary>unversioned 'working copy'</primary>
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12 Sometimes you may want a copy of your working tree without any of
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13 those <filename>.svn</filename> directories, e.g. to create a zipped
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14 tarball of your source, or to export to a web server. Instead of
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15 making a copy and then deleting all those <filename>.svn</filename>
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16 directories manually, TortoiseGit offers the command
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18 <guimenu>TortoiseGit</guimenu>
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19 <guimenuitem>Export...</guimenuitem>
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21 Exporting from a URL and exporting from a working copy are treated
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22 slightly differently.
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25 <figure id="tsvn-dug-export-dia-1">
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26 <title>The Export-from-URL Dialog</title>
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27 <graphic fileref="../images/ExportURL.png"/>
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29 If you execute this command on an unversioned folder, TortoiseGit will
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30 assume that the selected folder is the target, and open a dialog for
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31 you to enter the URL and revision to export from.
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32 This dialog has options to export only the top level folder, to omit
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33 external references, and to override the line end style for files which
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34 have the <literal>svn:eol-style</literal> property set.
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37 Of course you can export directly from the repository too.
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38 Use the Repository Browser to navigate to the relevant subtree
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39 in your repository, then use
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41 <guimenu>Context Menu</guimenu>
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42 <guimenuitem>Export</guimenuitem>
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44 You will get the <guilabel>Export from URL</guilabel> dialog described above.
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47 If you execute this command on your working copy you'll be asked for
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48 a place to save the <emphasis>clean</emphasis> working copy without the
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49 <filename>.svn</filename> folders.
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50 By default, only the versioned files are exported, but you can use the
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51 <guilabel>Export unversioned files too</guilabel> checkbox to include any other
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52 unversioned files which exist in your WC and not in the repository.
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53 External references using <literal>svn:externals</literal> can be
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54 omitted if required.
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57 Another way to export from a working copy is to <action>right drag</action>
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58 the working copy folder to another location and choose
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60 <guimenu>Context Menu</guimenu>
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61 <guimenuitem>SVN Export here</guimenuitem>
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65 <guimenu>Context Menu</guimenu>
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66 <guimenuitem>SVN Export all here</guimenuitem>
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68 The second option includes the unversioned files as well.
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71 When exporting from a working copy,
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72 if the target folder already contains a folder of the same
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73 name as the one you are exporting, you will be given the option
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74 to overwrite the existing content, or to create a new folder with
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75 an automatically generated name, eg. <literal>Target (1)</literal>.
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78 <title>Exporting single files</title>
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80 The export dialog does not allow exporting single files, even
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81 though Subversion can.
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84 To export single files with TortoiseGit, you have to use
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85 the repository browser (<xref linkend="tsvn-dug-repobrowser"/>).
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86 Simply drag the file(s) you want to export from the repository
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87 browser to where you want them in the explorer, or use the
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88 context menu in the repository browser to export the files.
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92 <title>Exporting a Change Tree</title>
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94 If you want to export a copy of your project tree structure
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95 but containing only the files which have changed in a particular
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96 revision, or between any two revisions, use the compare revisions
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97 feature described in <xref linkend="tsvn-dug-compare-revs"/>.
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100 <sect2 id="tsvn-dug-export-unversion">
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101 <title>Removing a working copy from version control</title>
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103 <primary>unversion</primary>
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106 Sometimes you have a working copy which you want to convert back
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107 to a normal folder without the <literal>.svn</literal> directories.
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108 What you really need is an export-in-place command, that just
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109 removes the control directories rather than generating a new
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110 clean directory tree.
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113 The answer is surprisingly simple - export the folder to itself!
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114 TortoiseGit detects this special case and asks if you want to
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115 make the working copy unversioned. If you answer
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116 <emphasis>yes</emphasis> the control directories will be removed
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117 and you will have a plain, unversioned directory tree.
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