puzzled about branching

I have created a branch of my project on the server, and have run an update on my client. I was under the impression that branching created a “cheap copy”, but the update appears to be downloading a copy of everything, giving me two identical versions of the project, and I can go in and look at the branch without having to switch to it from /trunk.

Is this what is supposed to happen? I thought I would not be able to see anything in the branch unless I switched to it, and that I’d only have one copy of each project file unless I changed it. I only WANT one copy of any identical files on my system – I thought switching would give me that, rather than doing a check-out of the branch, but it seems an update is giving me all of it a second time anyway.

My project structure looks something like this (art and audio folders contain what’s needed for the entire project – only the development folder has the different versions):
/project
  /art
  /audio
  /development
    /trunk
    /branches
      /lite (this is what I just copied from /trunk)
    /tags

Thanks for any clarification.
Sharon

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Received on 2011-09-16 10:25:23 CEST