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

From: Ryan Schmidt <subversion-2007b_at_ryandesign.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 13:36:01 -0600

On Jan 21, 2008, at 10:07, Fouts Christopher (QNA RTP PT PREV) wrote:

>> 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"
>
> Ryan, et al, I'm about to do this. How will these affect existing
> branches that have to-from tags with the trunk before the rm/cp trunk
> procedure?

It won't affect them at all? I don't really understand the question.
In what way do you think tags might be affected?

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