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RE: Created branches, tags, and trunk after the fact, MOSTLY works

From: Bob Archer <Bob.Archer_at_amsi.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 22:46:31 +0000

Are you branching from a point prior to moving your project into the trunk directory?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Ross [mailto:kevin_at_familyross.net]
> Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 4:47 PM
> To: users_at_subversion.apache.org
> Subject: Created branches, tags, and trunk after the fact, MOSTLY works
>
> Hello,
>
> When the project repository was setup, we didn't include branches, tags,
> and trunk (oversight on our part). It wasn't until we decided we wanted to
> start branching that we realized this mistake. So in TortoiseSVN repo-
> browser, I created branches, tags, and trunk folders, and from the repo-
> browser, moved the existing folders into the trunk folder.
>
> I also then created a branch from a specific revision, and it created the branch
> for me. I've committed changes to the branch (and to the
> trunk) without problems.
>
> However, if I try to "svn switch" between trunk and a branch, I get "no
> common ancestry" error (which I can override with --ignore-ancestry), which
> leads me to believe that I didn't recreate the folder hierarchy correctly.
>
> Can anyone help?
>
> Thanks!
> -- Kevin
Received on 2014-02-24 23:47:20 CET

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