On Feb 21, 2008, at 23:59, mister bean wrote:
> I am the main committer on a FOSS project that uses Subversion.
> After about
> 20K LoC, we've realized we need to re-architect the whole project.
> We want
> to keep the old code around, but the new version will surely use
> different
> Java packages and so have a different directory structure entirely.
>
> What we want to do is make the current trunk a branch and then
> start a new
> trunk with no files in it. We'll add files as we go. Normally, I
> think one
> would just start a new project, but since this is hosted for us on
> Subversion and we want to keep the rest of the site intact, we
> don't want to
> create a new project.
>
> So, the question is: What's the best way to essentially dead-end
> the current
> trunk, keep it available (presumably as a branch), and then start a
> new
> trunk with no files in it?
Easy! Where $REPO is your repository URL:
svn mv $REPO/trunk $REPO/branches/failed-attempt \
-m "moving failed trunk to a branch for future reference"
svn mkdir $REPO/trunk \
-m "making new empty trunk"
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Received on 2008-02-22 07:16:02 CET