Hi Mark,
You understood correctly.
And I was blind.
I use tortoisesvn client under windows. There reason I couldn't spot this
functionality in TSVN is because in tortoisesvn the name for the copy
operation is "Branch/Tag..." which automatically locks me up in thinking
that is available only for folders.
Thanks
Mark
On 12 May 2014 07:24, Cooke, Mark <mark.cooke_at_siemens.com> wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kamil Libich [mailto:kamil.libich_at_gmail.com]
> > Sent: 07 May 2014 15:09
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I could not find any information neither in the archive nor in the svn
> book
> > :-(
> >
> > I'd like to ask you about the copying a file(s) from one repo branch to
> > another branch of the repo. Although, seems to be trivial, please read
> the
> > scenario below.
> >
> > I've been working on the project which has a lot of changes which have
> to be
> > deployed in very short periods of time; daily or sometimes twice a day.
> I do
> > releases directly from the trunk.
> >
> > Now, I heading the situation in which I have to work on the different
> > software; still within the same project, but in different branch. Let
> call
> > this new branch a trunk2.
> >
> > I realised, that I have to slightly modify a lot of files belongs to
> trunk
> > branch. Instead of doing ordinary copy operation and check in to the new
> > branch with comment about its provenance in the comment field (as I do
> when
> > I have to copy one or two files only) I'd like to copy in the way that
> the
> > information about from where the files were copied we maintain in svn
> > automatically.
> >
> > Can I do this?
>
> If I understand you correctly: yes!
>
> Check out the subversion "copy" command which does exactly what you want.
> If you work in local "working copies" then you can copy multiple files and
> commit in one go. If you use TortoiseSVN on Windows (you forget to say
> what platform you are on) you can also use the right-click-and-drag which
> will offer you the svn options when you do the file movement.
>
> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.8/svn.ref.svn.c.copy.html
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> ~ Mark C
>
> > Sumarising,
> > The present situation:
> > 1. I check out the trunk branch
> > 2. I check out the trunk2 branch
> > 3. I do copy the files I want (under the OS, select and drag over)
> > 4. I update the trunk2 branch with the information about the source of
> the
> > files in the comment window during the update
> >
> > The demanded situation:
> > How to do the copy (create a duplicate of the file in the different
> branch
> > and still the same branch) whilst the information about the source of the
> > copy will be automatically (not in comments field) maintained by SVN.
> > It will allow me to do the independent changes in two branches still
> > maintaining the history with letting me know which file was derived from
> > which file and when.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Kamil
>
Received on 2014-05-13 17:02:53 CEST