Re: Creating a Branch/Tag

Yongtze Chi <ytchi@accuship.com> wrote on 11/23/2005 12:07:21 PM:

> I recently started using Subversion/Subclipse. I am trying to find out
> the best way to create a branch of my project in the repository using
> Subclipse. I know the Branch/Tag option in the Team menu allows me to do

> a copy of the project and place it in the branches folder. Or I can go
> through the "SVN Repository Browsing" perspective and make a copy of the

> project over there. But in either case, I the new copy of the project
> takes the same name as the old copy. I then have to do a rename (which
> is a different operation) on the new copy to give it a more meaningful
> branch/tag label. Does anyone know a way to do copy/rename in the same
> operation? The svn command line interface seems to support this:
>
> svn copy http://host/repos/trunk/project1
> http://host/repos/branches/project1/branch-123 -m "Creating branch 123."
>
> Is there a way to do this in Subclipse?

I just added this feature this week. It will be in the next release. You
will also be able to do this from the Resource History view in the next
release.

Mark

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Received on Thu Nov 24 04:01:33 2005