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RE: Making a branch

From: <Steve.Nelson_at_uk.delarue.com>
Date: 2006-12-20 09:58:38 CET

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ryan Schmidt [mailto:subversion-2006d@ryandesign.com]

<snip stuff about badly organised project>

> Now, if [checking out the trunk]is inconvenient or impossible because
the entire trunk
> is so huge that it would take forever to check out or because
> it uses
> inordinate amounts of disk space on the client, then you'll have to
> work around that organizational problem by creating a branch that
> only contains what you want to work on.

Checking out the trunk wouldn't be realistic, no. I am asking the
developers to indicate functional groupings, and will try arranging the
trunk into functional subdirectories in a test area as an experiment.
However I suspect this won't work out in practice, but that's my
headache!

> For example...
>
>
> $ svn info $URL
> # see what the HEAD revision of the repository is -- let's
> say it's 456
>
> $ svn mkdir $URL/devrep/branches/issue123 \
> -m "making empty issue123 branch"
>
> $ svn cp -r456 $URL/devrep/trunk/foo $URL/devrep/branches/issue123 \
> -m "copying foo from trunk r456 to issue123 branch"
>
> $ svn cp -r456 $URL/devrep/trunk/bar $URL/devrep/branches/issue123 \
> -m "copying bar from trunk r456 to issue123 branch"
>
> $ svn cp -r456 $URL/devrep/trunk/baz $URL/devrep/branches/issue123 \
> -m "copying baz from trunk r456 to issue123 branch"

Perfect - this is exactly the procedure I needed to understand. I could
do this with tortoisesvn, but I wasn't sure how to accomplish the same
task on the command line.

> Yes, this is more work, and you end up with several revisions being
> required to accomplish what is logically a single task (that of
> creating the branch). But that's not such a big deal.

Quite. Very helpful indeed, and thanks also for other poster's
constructive criticism.

S.

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