Re: Question regarding branching

Hi Jeff,

> I have a question with regarding branching.
>
> Let's say I have a project that contains the following files:
>
> application1file1
> application1file2
> application1file3
> ...
> application2file1
> application2file2
> application2file3
>
> Each of these files are checked into repository/project/trunk
>
> Ok, as development goes on, I'm working on application2's files and when the "powers at be" want me to make a change to application1's files.
>
> Well here is the dilemma. I went ahead and make the changes to application1's files. Now the "powers at be" decide that they don't want the changes I just did for application1's file in the mainline code.
>
> So the dilemma. Is there a way to branch just application1's files and then merge them back into the mainline in the future?

Well, you should be able to create a branch for app1 easily enough with

svn copy svn+ssh://your-host/repository/trunk/application1 \
           svn+ssh://your-host/repository/branches/app1-branch

I haven't done much with merging using svn yet, but AFAICT the merge would be
done like any other, but slightly mismatched urls (merge /branch/dir to
/trunk/dir instead of /trunk)

Hope that helps.

Roger

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