Re: What's the best way to restart a project?

Wonderful. Thank you. I couldn't find this info anywhere, possibly because I
didn't quite know where to look beyond branches. Much appreciated!
---mr.bean

Ryan Schmidt-32 wrote:
>
> 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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