Could you please, in future, post in plain text and add new text either in-line or at the bottom, it is much easier to follow then... See more below...
> On 12 May 2014 07:24, Cooke, Mark <mark.co...@siemens.com> wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Kamil Libich [mailto:kamil.lib...@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 > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kamil Libich [mailto:kamil.lib...@gmail.com] > Sent: 13 May 2014 15:56 > To: users@subversion.apache.org > Cc: Cooke, Mark > Subject: Re: Copy the files between the branches witin the same repo and with > saving the svn info about the operation. > > 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 I am glad to help. I just checked the TSVN context menus and you are right, I had forgotten that "copy" was not in there. However, I usually use right-click-and-drag in explorer because windoze gives you options for move / copy even for non-subversion files (which can be a very useful safeguard at times!) Anyway, for completeness I wanted to also point out this page: http://tortoisesvn.net/usefultips.html ...which includes the right-click-and-drag under "Most forgotten feature" ~ Mark C
