Re: How to create a branch from a remote repository

On Thursday 08 February 2007 13:33, thomas Armstrong wrote:
> Using subversion v1.4.2 on Linux, I want to create a branch from a
> trunk hosted in a remoted server.

The Subversion-specific branching and merging is only available within a
repository. In order to follow an external repository, you could use svnsync
(not sure if that allows only following or also local changes) or
svn_load_dirs.pl which also works with sources from non-SVN repositories.

> Steps I followed:
>
> 1) downloaded the trunk on /home/svn-repositories/myproject/
> []# svn co http://remoteserver.com/project trunk

Okay, now you have a working copy. Since you won't commit any changes to the
remote repository, you could as well have used 'export' instead
of 'checkout'.

> 2) created the branch
> []# cd /home/svn-repositories/myproject/
> []# svnadmin create branch
> []# chown -R apache.apache branch
> []# chmod a+x .
> []# vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/subversion.conf
> []# /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart
> http://myserver/myproject/branch/ works

Hmmm, this is not a branch in SVN-slang but rather a repository.

> But I don't know how to copy the contents of 'trunk' to 'branch', or
> how to use 'svn merge'

You can't as already mentioned. The only tool to copy changes is svnsync, and
I'm not sure it is applicable in your case.

Uli

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