Here's a good example...
http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/SvnBranch
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ryan Schmidt [mailto:subversion-2006c@ryandesign.com]
>Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 7:55 PM
>To: Aaron Davies
>Cc: users@subversion.tigris.org
>Subject: Re: Help w/Merging/Tagging
>
>
>On Aug 17, 2006, at 23:51, Aaron Davies wrote:
>
>> Hi, I have a question about how to properly do merging/tagging. The
>> situation is this: we have a main branch, named for the part of the
>> year, Q2. We have a tag for a specific configuration of that branch,
>> UAT2. That tag was cut too early, and now many changes need to be
>> merged into it. Since these are not things that should be present in
>> HEAD of Q2, I currently have them in a local source tree, which is
>> composed mostly of explicit checkouts of earlier revisions, but
>> partially of directories switched to HEAD, plus the occasional local
>> edit.
>>
>> I would now like to check this entire tree back into the
>UAT2 tag, but
>> I can't figure out how. I get the impression it would
>something along
>> the lines of "svn merge ./UAT2 ./Q2-custom ./UAT2", but that gives a
>> message about needing revision numbers specfied, and I don't
>know what
>> revisions to use. Is this the right approach, and if so, how exactly
>> do I do it? Any help would be much appreciated!
>
>Assuming there were no other modifications done in the UAT2
>tag -- that is, considering that your current mixed working
>copy completely represents how you want the UAT2 tag to look
>-- consider just "svn rm"ing the UAT2 tag and recreating it by
>copying your working copy there. I think that will be easier
>than trying to merge it. I'm not even sure if you could merge
>it, since merging is something you do from things that have
>already been committed, and your changes haven't been
>committed anywhere yet if I understand you correctly.
>
>
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