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Re: Addition to documentation on branch/tag? (Or did I miss it in my search:)

From: Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2006-02-03 08:22:34 CET

On 2/3/06, si <sshnug.si@gmail.com> wrote:

> A college and I were a little stumped on this, and it took us a while to
> figure out why. It may be worth adding to the documentation somewhere,
> under gotchya's?
>
> To summarise: If you create a new folder (say in the repo-browser) and
> then branch/tag to that newly created folder, then the branch/tag will
> also include the name of the directory you selected (as a sub-directory),
> rather than the usual process of just copying the files and directories
> underneath the selected directory to the new location.
>
> I think I can understand the rational (because the location already
> exists and a copy shouldn't overwrite data), but it was tricky to figure
> out the reason, because the directory was empty to begin with.

http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2188

Stefan

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