SVN Checkout without re-copying

Question

I have imported an unversioned directory into an empty SVN repository then want that same directory to be versioned but there are a lot of files and Checkout is taking a long time. is there a way to set the current set of files to be equal to the current version in repository or some similar solution?

Answer 1

I found one way to do this: create an empty repository then check it out into the folder of existing files - nothing will be added or removed - then commit the files. And one tip: if you can, use the SVN protocol instead of HTTP/S as it's much faster