Re: [Subclipse-users] Switch working copy to new branch/tag

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Chris
Velevitch<chris.velevitch_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 23:42, Mark Phippard<markphip_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> Suppose your WC is pointing to trunk and you create a branch/tag from
>> your WC.  This creates the branch/tag in the repository based on the
>> revisions loaded in your WC.  However, your WC is still pointing at
>> trunk and you next update/commit will come from trunk.  If you want to
>> commit to the branch, you need to switch your WC.
>
> Does that mean then, if I commit some changes to the trunk, the WC
> will no longer be pointing to the HEAD of the trunk, because the head
> of the trunk has now moved?

I am tempted to say I do not understand the question. I do understand
it, but not in context of the previous stuff. I do not see the
relationship of this question to creating a branch and switching.

This link to the SVN book answers your question:

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.basic.in-action.html#svn.basic.in-action.revs

Read all the way to the end.

> Also, if, without switching, I commit some more changes and then
> create a new tag, does this mean the last 2 created tags have the same
> set of files?

No. The first tag would not have the changes you made after creating
it. Why would you expect them to be the same?

> Does updating switch the WC to the HEAD?

Update to HEAD option updates to HEAD. Update to version ... brings
up a dialog that lets you specify the revision.

Switch is a special form of update that is typically used to point you
to a new location within the same repository. For example from trunk
to the 1.x branch.

-- 
Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/
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