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pierrotlefou
pierrotlefou

Reputation: 40721

svn : how to create a branch from certain revision of trunk

The following action will only create a branch from the head revision of the trunk. How do I create a branch from a specific revision? Thanks.

$ svn copy http://svn.example.com/repos/calc/trunk \
       http://svn.example.com/repos/calc/branches/my-calc-branch \
  -m "Creating a private branch of /calc/trunk."

Upvotes: 120

Views: 147929

Answers (4)

ShivaKumar
ShivaKumar

Reputation: 31

Try below one:

svn copy http://svn.example.com/repos/calc/trunk@rev-no 
       http://svn.example.com/repos/calc/branches/my-calc-branch 
  -m "Creating a private branch of /calc/trunk."  --parents

No slash "\" between the svn URLs.

Upvotes: 0

typeoneerror
typeoneerror

Reputation: 56948

Check out the help command:

svn help copy

  -r [--revision] arg      : ARG (some commands also take ARG1:ARG2 range)
                             A revision argument can be one of:
                                NUMBER       revision number
                                '{' DATE '}' revision at start of the date
                                'HEAD'       latest in repository
                                'BASE'       base rev of item's working copy
                                'COMMITTED'  last commit at or before BASE
                                'PREV'       revision just before COMMITTED

To actually specify this on the command line using your example:

svn copy -r123 http://svn.example.com/repos/calc/trunk \
    http://svn.example.com/repos/calc/branches/my-calc-branch

Where 123 would be the revision number in trunk you want to copy. As others have noted, you can also use the @ syntax. I prefer the clearer separation of the revision # from the URL, personally.

As noted in the help, you can replace a revision # with certain words as well:

svn copy -rPREV http://svn.example.com/repos/calc/trunk \
    http://svn.example.com/repos/calc/branches/my-calc-branch

Would copy the "revision just before COMMITTED".

Upvotes: 167

Edward Q. Bridges
Edward Q. Bridges

Reputation: 18320

append the revision using an "@" character:

svn copy http://src@REV http://dev

Or, use the -r [--revision] command line argument.

Upvotes: 20

Dan McGrath
Dan McGrath

Reputation: 42018

$ svn copy http://svn.example.com/repos/calc/trunk@192 \
   http://svn.example.com/repos/calc/branches/my-calc-branch \
   -m "Creating a private branch of /calc/trunk."

Where 192 is the revision you specify

You can find this information from the SVN Book, specifically here on the page about svn copy

Upvotes: 37

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