Hi Mark, You understood correctly.
And I was blind. I use tortoisesvn client under windows. There reason I couldn't spot this functionality in TSVN is because in tortoisesvn the name for the copy operation is "Branch/Tag..." which automatically locks me up in thinking that is available only for folders. Thanks Mark On 12 May 2014 07:24, Cooke, Mark <mark.co...@siemens.com> wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Kamil Libich [mailto:kamil.lib...@gmail.com] > > Sent: 07 May 2014 15:09 > > > > Hi, > > > > I could not find any information neither in the archive nor in the svn > book > > :-( > > > > I'd like to ask you about the copying a file(s) from one repo branch to > > another branch of the repo. Although, seems to be trivial, please read > the > > scenario below. > > > > I've been working on the project which has a lot of changes which have > to be > > deployed in very short periods of time; daily or sometimes twice a day. > I do > > releases directly from the trunk. > > > > Now, I heading the situation in which I have to work on the different > > software; still within the same project, but in different branch. Let > call > > this new branch a trunk2. > > > > I realised, that I have to slightly modify a lot of files belongs to > trunk > > branch. Instead of doing ordinary copy operation and check in to the new > > branch with comment about its provenance in the comment field (as I do > when > > I have to copy one or two files only) I'd like to copy in the way that > the > > information about from where the files were copied we maintain in svn > > automatically. > > > > Can I do this? > > If I understand you correctly: yes! > > Check out the subversion "copy" command which does exactly what you want. > If you work in local "working copies" then you can copy multiple files and > commit in one go. If you use TortoiseSVN on Windows (you forget to say > what platform you are on) you can also use the right-click-and-drag which > will offer you the svn options when you do the file movement. > > http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.8/svn.ref.svn.c.copy.html > > Hope that helps, > > ~ Mark C > > > Sumarising, > > The present situation: > > 1. I check out the trunk branch > > 2. I check out the trunk2 branch > > 3. I do copy the files I want (under the OS, select and drag over) > > 4. I update the trunk2 branch with the information about the source of > the > > files in the comment window during the update > > > > The demanded situation: > > How to do the copy (create a duplicate of the file in the different > branch > > and still the same branch) whilst the information about the source of the > > copy will be automatically (not in comments field) maintained by SVN. > > It will allow me to do the independent changes in two branches still > > maintaining the history with letting me know which file was derived from > > which file and when. > > > > Cheers, > > Kamil >
