Ah, that makes sense. (I was going to post that I'd solved the
problem by putting the branch in a new directory off the root
directory). If the directory already exists and is empty, though, is
there any reason why it can't just use that directory? The current
behavior seems a little bit obtuse, since it can lead to a situation
like mine where TortoiseSVN seems to be asking for the same
directories to be both created and deleted. Maybe a message to
clarify that it can't/won't create directory structures that are two-
or-more deep?
~~Hyouko
On Dec 27, 8:00 pm, Wim Coenen <wcoe..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 22:39, hyouko <hyouko...._at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > Apologies - SVN newbie here. I'm trying to create a branch in our
> > project so that I can work on a nasty bug introduced in my local
> > working copy without disturbing the main-line development. I've tried
> > following the documentation here (http://tortoisesvn.net/docs/release/
> > TortoiseSVN_en/tsvn-dug-branchtag.html). No luck. At first it was
> > telling me that the path I was trying to copy to was not found - so I
> > created the path in question (branches/newstuff in the root
> > directory). Now it errors out, telling me that the directory already
> > exists. What exactly is it looking for here?
>
> Suppose you want to branch "/trunk" to "/branches/newstuff". In this
> case the "/branches" folder must already exist, and the "newstuff"
> folder must NOT yet exist.
>
> When you create a new folder in windows explorer the situation is
> analogous: the parent folder should already exist. The folder you
> are trying to create should not already be there.
>
> HTH,
>
> Wim Coenen
>
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