Re: (Silly?) question regarding branch and switch

Hi there.

I had a problem where Subclipse/Subversion didn't seem to be switching correctly:

> When I use Subclipse to create a branch, then switch to that branch, I see
> appropriate log messages (probably broken by my mailer):
> [...]
> In the project browser, however, the project still shows up as "svntest [svntest/trunk]".
> I was expecting it to change to "svntest [svntest/branches/tb1]".
>
> When I then make a change to a file in the project and commit the change, the change
> appears to have been made in *both* copies, trunk and branch. When I use switch, it
> *seems* to switch (see the log entries above), but the version of the file I get is
> always the changed one, and the label decoration never changes from "[svntest/trunk]".
> The default URL in the "Switch to Branch/Tag" dialog is always the trunk, as if it
> never switched away.

No matter how meticulously I did this, I always saw this effect. I wrote some shell scripts to test the behaviour of "svn switch" directly and it seemed as if Subversion was doing everything correctly.

Then when I attempted to modify the Subclipse preferences I got a message saying that some handler could not be notified.

At this point I decided Eclipse had lost its marbles :-)

I restarted Eclipse, which runs permanently on my Linux box and hadn't been closed for at least two weeks.

Problems gone.

Argh!

My thanks to those who helped clarify switching for me; this problem indirectly taught me a lot about Subversion :-)

Regards, K.
 

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