RE: Help needed with a unique type of branch creation

Hi all,

My apologies; Stefan's suggestion _did_ in fact work correctly. I misread the logs :(
Sorry to have taken your time. Thanks again, Stefan!

Best regards,

-- 
Mun
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mun Johl <Mun.Johl_at_wdc.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 4, 2020 9:03 AM
> To: Stefan Sperling <stsp_at_elego.de>
> Cc: users_at_subversion.apache.org
> Subject: RE: Help needed with a unique type of branch creation
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I just thought I'd mention that I have now also tried the following variant
> which still branched the HEAD instead of revision 10000:
> 
> $ svn copy -r 10000 svn://domain.com/trunk
> svn://domain.com/branches/temp
> 
> Regards,
> 
> --
> Mun
> 
> > Hi Stefan,
> >
> > Thank you very much for your reply.
> > Please see my comments below.
> >
> > > On Wed, Mar 04, 2020 at 04:45:45AM +0000, Mun Johl wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > Off of trunk in our repo are various directories.  I am trying to
> > > > branch a
> > > specific revision of two of the directories and am not being
> > > successful ... the branch is always off of the HEAD revision.
> > > Here's one
> > attempt:
> > > >
> > > > $ svn mkdir ^/branches/temp
> > > > $ svn copy -r 10000 svn://domain.com/trunk/dir-x
> > > > svn://domain.com/branches/temp $ svn copy -r 10000
> > > > svn://domain.com/trunk/dir-y svn://domain.com/branches/temp
> > >
> > > > I'd rather not branch the entire trunk due to it's size and mostly
> > > > unneeded
> > > files.
> > >
> > > What you are trying to do may look like a benefit in the short term.
> > > But once you run sync merges from trunk, or merge your changes back
> > > to trunk, it will work a lot better if SVN sees your branch as a full copy of
> trunk.
> > >
> > > So I would recommend to always branch the entire trunk.
> >
> > [Mun]  I decided to heed your advice and do something like this:
> > $ svn copy svn://domain.com/trunk_at_10000
> svn://domain.com/branches/temp
> >
> > However, that still branched the HEAD revision instead of revision
> > 10000.  Not that it should matter--I don't think--but I executed the
> > command from a working directory that was at revision 10000.
> >
> > > On the server this does not use any additional space.
> >
> > [Mun]  Thanks for the reminder :)
> >
> > > On the client you can make your working copy "shallow" (also called
> > > "sparse") to avoid the space issues and unneeded files.
> > > See
> > > http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.advanced.sparsedirs.html
> >
> > [Mun] I have made that so.  Now I only need to figure out how to
> > branch the specific revision I need rather than HEAD.  Note that we
> > are using "svn, version 1.8.19 (r1800620)".
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > --
> > Mun