RE: [TSVN] Request: on Branch/Tag

>From my point of view the solution for this problem could be to
have a "copy" menu in TSVN, that copies the working copy
"as is" to some arbitrary repository URL. Like the command line does:

---
svn help copy
copy (cp): Duplicate something in working copy or repos, remembering history.
usage: copy SRC DST
  SRC and DST can each be either a working copy (WC) path or URL:
    WC  -> WC:   copy and schedule for addition (with history)
    WC  -> URL:  immediately commit a copy of WC to URL
    URL -> WC:   check out URL into WC, schedule for addition
    URL -> URL:  complete server-side copy;  used to branch & tag
---
Currently TSVN does not supply the "WC -> URL" mode in its menu.
I guess that's the one Rodrigo wants.
Greets
Udo
> -----Original Message-----
> From: SteveKing [mailto:steveking@gmx.ch]
> Sent: Monday, July 05, 2004 5:40 PM
> To: dev@tortoisesvn.tigris.org
> Subject: Re: [TSVN] Request: on Branch/Tag
> 
> 
> Rodrigo Miguel Sá Guerra wrote:
> > I'm using the "branch/tag" command from the explorer 
> context menu and 
> > it's not branching my "mixed" working copy.
> > 
> > In my test scenario the revision of the branched folder as only one 
> > file, and the same folder in the trunk as now two files.
> 
> ".. folder _h_as only" and "... trunk _h_as now to files".
> Please try to write correctly - it is very hard to read and 
> understand 
> what you really mean otherwise. "as" means something totally 
> different 
> than "has".
> 
> > When I do an update from the trunk I get all files and 
> folders, and that 
> > specific folder has two files (which is correct).
> > 
> > Then I use the context menu to switch that specific folder to the 
> > revision that's in the branch (that as only one file).
> > 
> > I browse my local working copy and it's all correct. All files and 
> > folders are equal to the contents of the trunk, and that 
> specific folder 
> > as only one file (from the branch).
> > 
> > Then I select the parent folder of my local working area, 
> and I use the 
> > "branch/tag" command from the explorer context menu to 
> create a tag with 
> > the configuration I described (Several files and folders 
> from the trunk, 
> > and a specific folder with the content from a branch, that 
> by now as 
> > only one file versus the two files that the same folder has 
> in the trunk).
> > 
> > When I look to the result of the branch, in that specific 
> folder there 
> > are two files, when it only should be one, as it is in my 
> working copy.
> > 
> > This is the test I've done, and the results are those I appointed.
> 
> I guess I have to explain how Subversion is supposed to work:
> - a working copy doesn't have a revision assigned to it, so a 
> copy from 
> a working copy to the repository always does this to HEAD.
> - a copy from a working copy to the repository does the following:
>    1. check the working copy for local modifications
>    2. create a copy from the URL which the working copy 
> points to to the 
> URL you specify.
>    3. commit the local modifications of the working copy to 
> that new copy
>    Info: steps 1-3 are done "in one step", i.e. only one new 
> revision is 
> created.
> 
> As I told you before: your working copy is inconsistent! Since you 
> switched a subfolder to another revision your branch/tag 
> command doesn't 
> work correctly. Sure, you can have subfolders switched to another 
> revision, but Subversion doesn't take this into account. E.g. if you 
> would make local modifications to your switched subfolder (or 
> files in 
> it) you would get an error on the next commit!
> Since the branch/tag command found no local modifications 
> (and a working 
> copy doesn't have a revision number assigned to it) 
> Subversion assumes 
> that it too points to HEAD.
> So what you want to do is not possible, neither with TSVN nor the 
> Subversion command line client.
> 
> Stefan
> 
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