At work, we have a very large project (about 30,000 files), managed by the Borland StarTeam source code management system. We would like to switch to SVN, but there are several obstacles in the way. The most important is the problem of obtaining a repository on all virtual machines of developers.
There are two main ways to configure a new SVN folder on your hard drive. (On Windows, using TortoiseSVN.) You can either check the SVN project from the repository, or take the existing code and load it into the (supposedly empty) repository, and after any of these operations you will get a folder tree from the SVN metadata folder. But we have several dozen developers who already have a whole copy of the project. We would really like to download it once, and then run some kind of "Link this existing folder to the repository in [everywhere] and synchronize them."
Does SVN support this? If so, how, and can this be done in TortoiseSVN, or do you need other tools for this?
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