Re: Re: svn switch and checking out to an external working folder

Ian
Thanks for your response. I was thinking that Subclipse hadn't developed this functionality yet, I just wanted to make sure. Thanks again for your help.

Rob
----- Original Message -----
From: Ian Brockbank
To: users@subclipse.tigris.org
Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 1:44 AM
Subject: RE: Re: svn switch and checking out to an external working folder

Hi Rob,

1) After I branch, I can not figure out how to switch my project to use the new branch. For example, I have a plugin called Administrator. I have branched it to another location so I can do some changes without bothering anyone else. I noticed that subversion has a command called switch that will point my working directory to the branch. Does subclipse have the capability to do this? If not, what are other doing in this situation?

You could always try the command line - svn switch. Type "svn help switch" for more info.

True, I could use the command line, but shouldn't subclipse have the option someplace. I would think that subclipse would be able to do all of the commands that you can do from the command line. What I would really like to do is to do a branch from subclipse, and then tell subclipse to update from the branch instead of updating from the trunk. Does this make since? Maybe I am too use to VSS and what I am saying is not the correct work flow. If that is the case, can someone tell me what the correct work flow is?

Remember Subversion v 1.0 was only released in February, and Eclipse 3.0 was only released in June. The team has been making great progress in the last few months since the Eclipse 3.0 Teamwork API was sufficiently documented for them to be able to make progress again. I'm sure it's only a matter of time before it's implemented in Subclipse - they've probably taken note of your request, but you can submit a feature request via the web site to make sure. Until then, there's always the command line. Alternatively, this is an open source project, so you're welcome to have a go at implementing it yourself and to submit a patch for the core development team to review and (hopefully) commit.

Cheers,
Ian Brockbank
Senior Applications Software Engineer
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Received on Thu Aug 12 01:13:10 2004