How to create a SVN branch ?

[Tomas Mecir]

Hi folks,

so, everyone keeps telling me that I need to commit my changes to a
branch, instead of simply keeping it home, then committing when things
are in compileable state ... And herein lies the problem ... I've
tried to read through the SVN handbook to find out how to create a
branch, only to find out that the branching concept is very
complicated, compared to cvs, where I had no problems.

So - my question is:
assume that I have a local copy with some modifications in it, that
are not committed anywhere. How do I commit these into a branch,
without losing'em upon branch creation ?

Hmpf.

/ Tomas