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Re: [Subclipse-users] Branching multiple projects

From: Tony Poppleton <tony.poppleton_at_codefarm.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:08:07 +0000

Hi Mark,

Many thanks for the rapid response.

Do you have a rough ETA of when the next release is going to be out?

Thanks again,
Tony

Mark Phippard wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 7:16 AM, Tony Poppleton
> <tony.poppleton_at_codefarm.com> wrote:
>
>> We have a large project with 50+ projects, that all need to be branched
>> in tandem with the same branche name for each release.
>>
>> When we were using CVS, this was just a case of selecting all the
>> projects in Eclipse, and branching them with a common branch name.
>> Switching between branches was also doable on all the projects at the
>> same time.
>>
>> In SVN, it seems we have to do this project-by-project, and each time
>> manually modify the url from <svn path>/trunk/<project name> to <svn
>> path>/branches/<branch name>/<project name>.
>>
>> I am aware that this is how SVN does branching, in that it is just
>> another folder like any other, but is there a way to emulate the CVS
>> behaviour allowing us just to specify the branch name, and it will
>> automatically do the URL substitution for us?
>>
>
> The next release allows you to select multiple projects for all of
> these operations (branch/switch/merge).
>
>

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