On 10/10/07, Tom Walter <walter.tom@gmail.com> wrote:
> My company uses a ticketing system that involves creating a branch
> matching the ticket number, that the QA department then tests before
> merging to the trunk.
>
> I often find myself needing to branch a small subsection of a project in
> a folder several levels deep in a heirarchy. It's simple enough to copy
> that folder into another folder in SVN, however it's often handy to
> preserve the entire directory structure leading to that folder as well,
> so that QA can easily tell where the code needs to be merged, and also
> because you might need to copy several folders from various places in
> the heirarchy into your branch.
>
> This isn't so simple to achieve currently, I would have to manually
> create my branch directory, and then each folder in the heirarchy within
> it, before copying the relevant folder across. It would be neat if there
> was an option in subclipse to recreate the heirarchy leading to the
> subfolder you are branching.
>
> For example, this command currently fails because the t23974 folder
> doesn't yet exist:
> copy -rHEAD http://svn/trunk/www http://svn/branches/t23974/www
> HTTP Path Not Found
> svn: PROPFIND request failed on '/!svn/bc/32907/branches/t23974'
> svn: '/!svn/bc/32907/branches/t23974' path not found
>
> It seems it wouldn't be too hard for subclipse to guess your intention
> and create the t23974 directory before copying www to it. Of course,
> sometimes you might have made a mistake, however that could be handled
> with a 'The t23974 directory does not exist, would you like to create it
> first?' confirmation.
>
> You might well say I should just copy from the root folder since copies
> in SVN are virtually free anyway. And yes, in an ideal world that would
> be fine. However the real world isn't so simple, and copying or
> switching from the root in our case is a fairly painful experience due
> to a proliferation of svn:externals throughout the heirarchy.
You are going to be happy with SVN 1.5 The svn copy command has a new
--parents option that will create the missing parents automatically.
I still need to figure out how I would expose this in Subclipse UI,
but it'll be there.
Please enter an issue though with your use case.
--
Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/
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Received on Thu Oct 11 02:45:34 2007