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@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
