> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lieven Govaerts [mailto:lgo@mobsol.be]
> Sent: vrijdag 10 februari 2006 22:36
> To: 'Phillip Novess'; users@subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: RE: Branching Questions
>
> Phil,
>
>
> if you have a lot of changes between your starting point and
> the newer version ( added/deleted files and folders ), this
> is a possible solution:
>
> Supposing you imported your starting point to trunk in revision 1.
>
> - create a branch from trunk@5
Sorry, I meant 'trunk@1' here.
> - checkout that branch to a working copy, make sure you also
> have a copy of the new code on your disk.
> - use the svn_load_dirs.pl script in the subversion
> repository (
> http://svn.collab.net/viewcvs/svn/trunk/contrib/client-side/
> ) to import the new code to your working copy. The script
> will copy over all files, add and delete files and folders
> and even allow you to indicate files to be renamed.
> - the script will commit the working copy automatically
>
> You now have a branch with one committed revision. This
> revision contains the exact delta between your starting point
> and the new code. The only thing left to do is to merge that
> revision to trunk.
>
> Lieven.
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Phillip Novess [mailto:pnovess@mac.com]
> > Sent: vrijdag 10 februari 2006 20:53
> > To: users@subversion.tigris.org
> > Subject: Branching Questions
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I started a repository and I found that the starting point of my
> > repository, the code I was working on, started at an incompatible
> > version with an upgrade I applied. So there are changes
> that have made
> > since the start of the repository. I'm only at rev 23.
> >
> > But I was wondering can I branch the current revision and import my
> > new starting point at rev 24? Then start doing diffs to apply the
> > changes I did in the previous revs. Does an import overwrite a
> > repository?
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> >
> > thanks,
> > - phill
> >
> >
> >
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