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Linedata Limited Registered Office: 85 Gracechurch St., London, EC3V 0AA Registered in England and Wales No 3475006 VAT Reg No 710 3140 03 -----Original Message----- > From: Jeremy Mordkoff [mailto:j...@zeevee.com] > Sent: 08 September 2010 14:33 > To: Giulio Troccoli; users@subversion.apache.org > Subject: RE: Renaming a branch > > > > Is there a safe way to rename a branch? I'm worried about all my > > > mergeinfo's > > > > If you have merged only from trunk and haven't merged from this > branch, I don't see a problem > > in using s imple svn mv. > > > I wish it was that simple > > branches/rel_2_5_3 merges to branches/rel_2_5 which merges to trunk > > I want to rename rel_2_5 to rel_2_6 rel_5_2 has *only* received merges, either from trunk or any other branch, is that correct? Then again a move is sufficient. The mergeinfo in the new branch, rel_2_6, will refer to rel_2_5_3 which you are not renaming. The problem would be if you had merged rel_2_5 to, let's say, rel_3_0. In that case you would need to edit the svn:mergeinfo property (using svn propedit not svn propset). G
