RE: Help needed with a unique type of branch creation
Hi all, My apologies; Stefan's suggestion _did_ in fact work correctly. I misread the logs :( Sorry to have taken your time. Thanks again, Stefan! Best regards, -- Mun > -Original Message- > From: Mun Johl > Sent: Wednesday, March 4, 2020 9:03 AM > To: Stefan Sperling > Cc: users@subversion.apache.org > Subject: RE: Help needed with a unique type of branch creation > > Hi all, > > I just thought I'd mention that I have now also tried the following variant > which still branched the HEAD instead of revision 1: > > $ svn copy -r 1 svn://domain.com/trunk > svn://domain.com/branches/temp > > Regards, > > -- > Mun > > > Hi Stefan, > > > > Thank you very much for your reply. > > Please see my comments below. > > > > > On Wed, Mar 04, 2020 at 04:45:45AM +, 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 1 svn://domain.com/trunk/dir-x > > > > svn://domain.com/branches/temp $ svn copy -r 1 > > > > 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@1 > svn://domain.com/branches/temp > > > > However, that still branched the HEAD revision instead of revision > > 1. Not that it should matter--I don't think--but I executed the > > command from a working directory that was at revision 1. > > > > > 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
RE: Help needed with a unique type of branch creation
Hi Stefan, Thank you very much for your reply. Please see my comments below. > On Wed, Mar 04, 2020 at 04:45:45AM +, 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 1 svn://domain.com/trunk/dir-x > > svn://domain.com/branches/temp $ svn copy -r 1 > > 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@1 svn://domain.com/branches/temp However, that still branched the HEAD revision instead of revision 1. Not that it should matter--I don't think--but I executed the command from a working directory that was at revision 1. > 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
Re: Help needed with a unique type of branch creation
On Wed, Mar 04, 2020 at 04:45:45AM +, 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 1 svn://domain.com/trunk/dir-x > svn://domain.com/branches/temp > $ svn copy -r 1 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. On the server this does not use any additional space. 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 Regards, Stefan
