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

From: Fouts Christopher (QNA RTP PT PREV) <Chris.Fouts_at_qimonda.com>
Date: 2007-12-21 15:59:12 CET

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ryan Schmidt [mailto:subversion-2007b@ryandesign.com]
>Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 2:27 AM
>To: Srilakshmanan, Lakshman
>Cc: Reuben Avery; subversion-users
>Subject: 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"
>

I'd have done this too. However, if Reuben changes his mind and wants
the old trunk back, the revision he removed, how can he get it back?

-chris

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