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RE: Am I able to delete a folder in the trunk but have it persist in a branch?

From: Will Rose <will_at_willrose.ca>
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 08:58:06 -0700 (PDT)

> On 21/08/2014 Will Rose wrote:
> >
> > Let's say my trunk has three folder.
> > - Folder1
> > - Folder2
> > - Folder3
> >
> > I create a branch MyBranch based on the trunk.
> >
> > Then I delete Folder2 from the trunk because maybe it's unstable code.
>
> >
> > Is there a way for Folder2 to persist inside MyBranch? My problem
> right now is if I want to merge changes from the trunk to MyBranch, it
> wants to delete Folder2 every time. I could allow it to delete and then
> copy the folder back in manually, but then I think I lose my revision
> history.
> >
> > Is there an easy answer to this? Thanks.
> >
>
> Yes. You can do a record only.
> Let's say you removed the Folder2 in revision 15. In the branch merge
> from trunk but just select revision 15 for merge. Just before the merge
> (In the Merge options) select 'Only record the merge'. Execute the merge
> and commit into the branch.
>
> SVN internally administrated the merge has been executed, but it
> actually didn't merge the changes. Therefore it doesn't want to merge
> the changes again. So in future merges you don't have to worry revision
> 15 is merged and removes Folder2.
>
> Best regards,
> Thijs

That worked perfectly. Thanks!

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