Re: Newbie alert: Cheap copies for tags/branches-HOW?

On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 05:05:03PM +0800, Richard CHAN Shih-Ping wrote:
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> Folks,
>
> The documentation says to lay out my project like
> project/trunk
> project/tag
> project/branch
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> When trunk is taggable how do you actually make a "cheap copy" or
> "clone" in the repo? Is this a server-side action or something you do in
> your working directory (and them commit)

Can be either.
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> Do I copy in my working directory and then commit?
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> Like
>
> cd project/
> svn copy trunk tag/BETA1
> svn commit

This will work, but you could also do:
$ svn copy http://yourhost.com/your/repos/trunk
    http://yourhost.com/your/repos/tags/BETA1

which will perform the operation on the server side, and commit in one step.
>
> or is there a magic svn server-side command?
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> Thanks!
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