Re: Branching Noob Question

That was part of the problem. /branches/maint/ *did* already exist,
but so did /3.5.5/. The latter was the problem. Once I deleted that
and re-branched I got exactly what I wanted.

Thanks to all.

On 8/16/06, Chris.Fouts@qimonda.com <Chris.Fouts@qimonda.com> wrote:
> I had this problem. I believe the ../branches/maint/
> dirs must already exist to do what you want to do.
>
> svn mkdir http://example.com/repos/myrepos/branches/maint
> svn commit (???)
> svn cp -m "blah blah"
> http://example.com/repos/myrepos/trunk/
> http://example.com/repos/myrepos/branches/maint/3.5.5
>
> -chris
>
>
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Rob Wilkerson [mailto:r.d.wilkerson@gmail.com]
> >Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 4:11 PM
> >To: Subversion Mailing List
> >Subject: Branching Noob Question
> >
> >This is particularly remedial, I know (I almost hate to ask
> >the question), but I can't quite understand what I'm doing
> >wrong. I'm trying to create a branch from the trunk and,
> >after the branch is complete, the branch includes the trunk
> >directory. Using this command
> >
> >svn cp -m "Creating a 3.5.5 maintenance branch"
> >http://example.com/repos/myrepos/trunk/
> >http://example.com/repos/myrepos/branches/maint/3.5.5/
> >
> >I end up with the following:
> >
> >example.com/branches/maint/currentversion/trunk
> >
> >What I want, of course, is for the /trunk level to go away and
> >its contents to live directly beneath the /currentversion
> >directory. I'm new to Subversion (obviously), but I've done
> >this before with the expected results. I guess I just got
> >lucky, though, because I have no idea what I did differently.
> >
> >Thanks for your help.
> >
> >--
> >
> >Rob Wilkerson
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