How to create a SVN branch ?

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

On Thursday 21 July 2005 11:34, Tomas Mecir wrote:
> On 7/21/05, Stephan Kulow <coolo at kde.org> wrote:
> > If you branch of from e.g. kspread, then do
> > svn copy https://svn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/koffice/kspread
> > https://svn.kde.org/home/kde/branches/work/soc-mykspread svn co
> > https://svn.kde.org/home/kde/branches/work/soc-mykspread
> > cd soc-mykspread
> > <do your changes to it - including svn add>
> > svn commit
>
> Hmm ... So, does this mean that I need to checkout to a new directory,
> then copy modified files, then commit ? Can't it be done directly ?

Probably not directly. But what you can do:

1) Make that diff and store it to a safe location (i.e. *not* in your svn 
checkout). The same for all new files.

2) Revert those changes in the svn checkout (just to make sure, I don't know 
how svn handles a svn switch when there are local changes)

3) Branch

4) Instead of checking out the whole branch, just do a svn switch in your old 
checkout to the new location (=branch). Now you'll have a checkout of the 
branch instead of trunk.

5) apply the patch and go on as described in the other mails.

Cheers,
Reinhold

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