RE: Re: How to branch already-committed revisions?

On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, Simon Wray wrote:
>> On 16/08/07, Simon Wray <Simon.Wray@xchanging.com> wrote:
>>> I have a number of revisions committed to the central development
> trunk,
>>> done over the last few weeks, made across several files. This project
> has
>>> been halted. Is it possible to now create a new branch and move these
>>> revisions from the trunk onto the branch? I.e. is there an
> established
>>> process or tool to do this?

>> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.branchmerge.html

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> I've read through that documentation and understand the premise of
> branching.
>
> Am I correct in thinking that what I really need to do is:
> 1. Archive all my revisions locally.
> 2. Reverse-merge my revisions from /trunk (in effect rolling them back).
> 3. Creating a new branch.
> 4. Applying my archived revisions to this branch.

No, you don't need to do anything locally.

Say you are currently at revision 100.

You meant to branch at revision 50.

You simply need to copy trunk@r50 to branch
Then merge from 50-100 from trunk to the branch.
Then reverse merge / delete all revisions 50-100 in the trunk.

Subversion won't really erase the changes once you reverse merge them.

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Received on Thu Aug 16 15:39:15 2007