Re: How do I Branch Without Getting Branch Folder?

The title of the thread immediately suggested to me that the paths don't
agree on the two areas. What if he had something like this?

MyProject/Trunk

MyProject/Branches/Trunk/

I say this because I have accidentally done things like this a lot. It is
not easy to remember how the interface acts, and now that I'm getting used
to it, I have found an inconsitency. In tsvn, if I check out
MyProject/Trunk, I will get the files (or folders) that are in
Trunk. Yesterday I did this same thing using svn from a (Cygwin) command
line:

svn checkout svn://localhost/sandbox/trunk

And I got 'trunk' created as a folder, with the contents put in the trunk
folder.

Now, with an "imbalance" like that, if I were to switch, it would indeed
delete the directory and replace it with the 'trunk' folder, the populate
'trunk' below. When I switched back, it would delete the trunk folder and
repopulate the current folder with the files directly. Of course, I could
avoid this by carefully selecting which directory I switch to, but none of
this will happen until I understand what my repository really looks
like. Hence, "repo-browser" is a godsend!

If anyone would care to comment about the checkout path inconsistency, I
would be interested. I just tried it on the command line in Linux (rather
than Cygwin) and got the trunk folder included again. Come to think of it,
how do I not get the folder...oops, now I'm on the wrong list :-)

Barry

> >From all your comments it sounds like you either checked out your
>trunk incorrectly, or created your branch incorrectly.

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Received on Wed Apr 5 21:52:42 2006