Please note - I have not tried importing a project into svn using Idea, but I do use Idea to work with projects already in subversion.

With most subversion clients the svn command line, TortiseSVN for Windows, importing a project a directory hierarchy into subversion and placing it into revision control does not transform the local filesystem copy of the project into a subversion 'working copy'. The idea here is to be completely non intrusive, altering nothing on the original.

After the project is stored inside subversion, the next step is to check out a working copy from the repository - I have done this using Idea. Idea does not display the 'hidden' .svn directories in the project view.

For general  not Idea specific, subversion information, take a look at http://subversion.tigris.org - there are links from there to the 'SVN Book' and the mailing list archives.

Edited by: Dave Levitt on Jun 4, 2008 8:51 AM parenthetical remarks translated to links

Edited by: Dave Levitt on Jun 4, 2008 8:52 AM

It's because of IDEA's sharing feature is broken http://jetbrains.net/jira/browse/IDEADEV-17633

Hello all,

I've just fixed the problem with "Share Directory" action. Hope it will be ok in the next EAP.

This is indeed unintuitive. It's a weird process : import into subversion, then you have to export to a new folder (the current one will say it already has these files/directories when you try to check out).

The other option is to add all the files (after importing the project) using the subverion->add menu then delete the project from the repository and updating the current project.

Both approaches seems convoluted, weird and uncharacteristic of Intellij's (usually) great workflows.