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Martin Schröder
Martin Schröder

Reputation: 4591

How do I copy subdirectories of a working copy in svn 1.7 while keeping the metadata?

svn 1.7 improves the working copy metadata format so there are no .svn directories in every directory of a working copy but one central store per working copy.

Now I want to copy sudirectories of a wcorking copy to another place (not check them out in the new place) where there is no working copy and use them there with svn (and all this on Windows with TortoiseSVN or the commandline). This was easy till 1.6 (just copy the directories), but now obviously the copies don't have any metadata attached anymore.

How to do this?

Upvotes: 9

Views: 725

Answers (2)

Pedro Pedruzzi
Pedro Pedruzzi

Reputation: 879

This workaround probably still has the network transfer overhead but keeps your local non-commited changes:

  1. Write down the revision of your working copy (update if desired)
  2. Copy/move the subdirectory to the desired location
  3. Do a checkout with the URL of the subdirectory and the revision noted over your detached directory (you may need --force)

Upvotes: 0

JB Nizet
JB Nizet

Reputation: 691635

It's not supported yet. See http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg09857.html

You'll have to do a fresh checkout, or to copy the subtree and do a switch on this subtree.

Upvotes: 9

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