[Subclipse-users] What is the recommended technique for copying changes between branches?

Most exalted ones,

My organization just started using subclipse, and I would like to know the
best way to move individual file changes between branches.
For example my repository is set up with the typical branches, tags,
trunk. I have branches/live where all of our 'production' code lives.
Let's say I update my working copy from the trunk, make a change to foo.c
and commit that change to trunk/foo.c and I want that change reflected in
branches/live/foo.c. I thought I could just right click on foo.c in the
trunk and select team->copy and give it the new location in branches/live.
But when I try that subclipse errors and tells me that it can't because
branches/live/foo.c already exists. So I can't copy between branches like
I expected to.

I suppose I can do a manual merge, but that could get sketchy.

What I can do is go to the repository browser, delete branches/live/foo.c
and then replace it with trunk/foo.c, but then I lose my version history
for the file in branches/live. Is that correct?

I need to understand why svn doesn't allow me to copy files from one
branch to another. Is manually merging the recommended option in
situations like this? Am I missing anything?

thanks in advance!

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Received on Wed Nov 21 15:40:52 2007