On Dec 21, 2007, at 08:59, Fouts Christopher (QNA RTP PT PREV) wrote:
>> On Dec 20, 2007, at 17:33, Srilakshmanan, Lakshman wrote:
>>
>>> I am sure you would have thought of this, but the easiest way and to
>>> keeping with the concept of trunk I would do the following.
>>>
>>> svn co trunk trunk-wc
>>> svn del everything under trunk-wc
>>> svn commit trunk-wc
>>>
>>> svn co branch branch-wc
>>> svn switch branch-wc to trunk
>>> svn commit
>>>
>>> This should make your branch identical to trunk
>>
>> Uh.... I really don't think so. I think "switch" does not do
>> what you think it does.
>>
>> What Reuben could do, though, is:
>>
>> svn rm url://to/repo/trunk -m "removing old trunk"
>> svn cp url://to/repo/branches/somebranch url://to/repo/trunk
>> -m "creating new trunk as copy of somebranch"
>
> I'd have done this too. However, if Reuben changes his mind and wants
> the old trunk back, the revision he removed, how can he get it back?
svn rm url://to/repo/trunk -m "removing new trunk"
svn cp url://to/repo/trunk_at_FOO url://to/repo/trunk -m "reinstating
old trunk from rFOO"
where FOO is a revision in which the old trunk still existed.
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Received on Fri Dec 21 16:34:31 2007