SVN commit without checkout or working copy

Question

I am working on a perl script which has to commit a new file every 10 minutes from my hard drive.

I was wondering if it is possible to perform a commit without having the working copy of the project whose commit I want to perform? Is it necessary to have a working copy of that project checked out on my hard drive before performing the commit?

Answer 1

If this directory contains many other files with much content, a solution would be to do a shallow checkout.

svn checkout <url> <target> --depth empty
cd <target>
svn up <yourfile>

Edit your file...

svn commit <yourfile>

If you use an older version of subversion, you will probably find what you look for in this post.

Answer 2

If it is a new file you can use the svn import command to directly import it into a particular folder in your repository

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.ref.svn.c.import.html