Re: Question: Best way to branch after changes have already been made

On Apr 26, 2005, at 12:19 PM, Josh Siegel wrote:

>
> You can copy directly from your working area to a branch and it will
> "do the right thing" including grabbing all your local mods
>
> go to the root and do a
>
> "svn copy . http://foo/branches/shelf"
>

Nothing so complex is needed:

Create the branch:

    'svn cp trunkURL branchURL'

Then switch your working copy to it:

    'svn switch branchURL'

Your local mods will be preserved. When you 'svn commit', all changes
will go to the branch.

This very example is discussed in chapter 4, in fact.

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Received on Tue Apr 26 19:33:07 2005