Re: how to completely replace the trunk of a repo with one of its branches?

On Dec 20, 2007, at 17:33, Srilakshmanan, Lakshman wrote:

> I am sure you would have thought of this, but the easiest way and
> to keeping with the concept of trunk I would do the following.
>
> svn co trunk trunk-wc
> svn del everything under trunk-wc
> svn commit trunk-wc
>
> svn co branch branch-wc
> svn switch branch-wc to trunk
> svn commit
>
> This should make your branch identical to trunk

Uh.... I really don't think so. I think "switch" does not do what you
think it does.

What Reuben could do, though, is:

svn rm url://to/repo/trunk -m "removing old trunk"
svn cp url://to/repo/branches/somebranch url://to/repo/trunk -m
"creating new trunk as copy of somebranch"

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Received on Fri Dec 21 08:27:56 2007