Are you branching from a point prior to moving your project into the trunk directory?
> -----Original Message----- > From: Kevin Ross [mailto:ke...@familyross.net] > Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 4:47 PM > To: users@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
