RE: Give us instructions to create a new repository with the branch code of a old repository

It's not. That branch won't have any history. You should delete that folder and use the copy command as I showed below.

BOb

From: lalith prasad [mailto:lalith.prasad_at_scubetech.in]
Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 10:36 AM
To: Bob Archer
Cc: Daniel Becroft; users_at_subversion.tigris.org
Subject: Re: Give us instructions to create a new repository with the branch code of a old repository

Dear All,

Thank you for the support.

Initially, i have tried the copy command with the revision range (i.e. -r 1:898). But i got the error "Revision range is not allowed for copy". So, i tried to create the branch using merge.

I have used the command,
svn merge -r 1:898 trunk/ branches/branch1/

The above command merged all the files to the empty branch folder for the revision 898. Then i made a commit to add these files to the repository.

The above command fixed my need and all the revision history is maintained too.

But i don't know whether it is a proper way of creating a branch or not and whether it will cause any future problems.
Can any one tell me whether the way i have followed is correct or not.........!

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 8:24 PM, Bob Archer <Bob.Archer_at_amsi.com<mailto:Bob.Archer_at_amsi.com>> wrote:
Specify the revision in your copy command:

svn cp -r 898 $REPO/Path/To/Trunk_at_898 $REPO/Path/To/BranchWanted

BOb

From: Lalitha Prasad [mailto:lalith.prasad_at_scubetech.in<mailto:lalith.prasad_at_scubetech.in>]
Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 6:18 AM
To: Daniel Becroft
Cc: users_at_subversion.tigris.org<mailto:users_at_subversion.tigris.org>
Subject: Re: Give us instructions to create a new repository with the branch code of a old repository

Hi Daniel

Thank you very much for your guidelines. It worked fine.
Another small query:
We want to create a new branch(copy) from the trunk but not to the head revision.
Example: The head revision is 913 and the trunk is also at 913, We need to create a new branch from trunk but the branch should contain r1 to r898.
Is there a way to achieve this. Please help us to solve our issue.
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Daniel Becroft <djcbecroft_at_gmail.com<mailto:djcbecroft_at_gmail.com>> wrote:
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Lalitha Prasad
<lalith.prasad_at_scubetech.in<mailto:lalith.prasad_at_scubetech.in>> wrote:
> Dear Sir
>
> We have repository which contains trunk and branch. The head revision is at
> 913
>
>
> Our Requirement:
> We just want to dump the trunk, then delete the trunk and to move all code
> from branch to the trunk then remove branch. Ultimately , we need to have
> our current branch code in the trunk. At the same time we just want the
> revision history to be loosed and there shouldn't be any increase/decrease
> in the Head revisions.
>
> Our Problem:
>
> Trunk is stopped at revision 346 but the branch has grown up 913 revision.
> We don't want to merge trunk with branch and vice versa due to some unstable
> features in the trunk.
> At the same time we want all the previous revision history to be maintained.
If you want this without an increase/decrease in the HEAD revision,
then all current working copys will be invalidated, and would need to
be re-checked out. This is because r913 of the new repository will not
be the same as r913 of the old repository.

You can do this in the current repository, without doing a dump/load
cycle, providing y don't mind an increase by 1 or 2 in the HEAD
revision, you could do:

svn delete %URL%/trunk
svn copy <branch> %URL%/trunk

Cheers,
Daniel B.

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