Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>
Thank you very much, I did not realize switch behaved this way. I have
read that part of the SVN Book, and had not interpreted it as saying
that switch will preserve local mods. Makes things a great deal
easier. Thanks again.
P.S. I apologize for posting to Dev. I accidentaly copied the wrong
e-mail address ..... and I guess I aplogize for AGAIN posting to Dev,
but this seems to be where discussion has occured (I posted to users 5
minutes after my original posting to Dev).
Mike Harris
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Received on Tue Apr 26 20:05:49 2005