svn copy usage question

[Timothy Reaves <tr...@silverfields.com>]

Hello all.

I'm attempting to use the svn copy command, and I use the format 
directly from the book on svn:
svn copy trunk branches/my-calc-branch
This does not do as the book states and copy the content of the trunk 
folder into the my-calc-branch folder.  Instead, it copies the trunk 
folder into the destination.

I have not been able to figure out how to only copy the contents of the 
source folder into the destination.  Would some one point me in the 
correct direction?


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Re: svn copy usage question

["Peter N. Lundblad" <pe...@famlundblad.se>]

On Sat, 31 Jul 2004, Timothy Reaves wrote:

> I'm attempting to use the svn copy command, and I use the format
> directly from the book on svn:
> svn copy trunk branches/my-calc-branch
> This does not do as the book states and copy the content of the trunk
> folder into the my-calc-branch folder.  Instead, it copies the trunk
> folder into the destination.
>
If you copy something and the destination already exists and is a folder,
the source will be copied to that folder. Maybe your folder already
existed?

Regards,
//Peter

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Re: svn copy usage question

[Greg Hudson <gh...@MIT.EDU>]

On Sat, 2004-07-31 at 23:59, Timothy Reaves wrote:
> I'm attempting to use the svn copy command, and I use the format 
> directly from the book on svn:
> svn copy trunk branches/my-calc-branch
> This does not do as the book states and copy the content of the trunk 
> folder into the my-calc-branch folder.  Instead, it copies the trunk 
> folder into the destination.

A friend of mine had exactly the same misunderstanding, so perhaps the
book needs to be reworded on this point.

If you want to overlay the contents of branches/my-calc-branch with the
contents of trunk, that's not a single copy operation from Subversion's
point of view; that's a separate copy operation for each entry in
trunk.  (And in current Subversion, that means either performing the
copy operation with a working copy, or doing it in multiple commits.)

You may want to review your processes and start using "svn merge"
instead of copies.  Up to you, of course.


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