Re: Adopting our best practices to svn?

Mike Meyer <mwm-keyword-svn.257b71@mired.org> writes:

[...]

> When we have a change that's going to result in an unstable tree for
> any period of time, we create a branch to work on. We then follow
> that sage advice, and "merge early and often", adding changes in the
> trunk to our branch on a regular basis. When the change is done, we
> merge in any remaining changes from trunk, run our regression tests,
> and then we're through. At this point, we want the trunk to become a
> copy of the branch.
>
> And that copy is the sticking point. "svn copy" won't work, because
> the trunk is already populated.

[...]

Would something like:

    svn mv trunk oldtrunk
    svn mv branch trunk

do what you want? Obviously using more useful names.

----Scott.

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Received on Thu Jul 26 03:22:09 2007