[hibernate-dev] copying branch to trunk without loosing revisions ?

[Andersen Max]

On Jul 9, 2010, at 16:41, Steve Ebersole wrote:

> Well in core we never developed "trunk" on a "branch" :)  But
> essentially I moved everything by hand; every branch, every tag, etc.
> 
> You are not going to be able to maintain history in both place as far as
> I know.  I think the closest you would get would be to:
> 1) svn mv
> https://svn.jboss.org/repos/hibernate/branches/Branch_3_2/HibernateExt/tools/ https://svn.jboss.org/repos/hibernate/tools/trunk
> 2) svn cp https://svn.jboss.org/repos/hibernate/tools/trunk
> https://svn.jboss.org/repos/hibernate/tools/branches/Branch_3_2

ended up going with this, but had to realized the hard way that svn mv behaves differently when the target directory exists ;)

/max

> 
> 
> On Fri, 2010-07-09 at 14:28 +0200, Andersen Max wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I know this is a long overdue, but i'm now creating 
>> 
>> https://svn.jboss.org/repos/hibernate/tools/
>> 
>> and is trying to figure out how to make what were done in https://svn.jboss.org/repos/hibernate/branches/Branch_3_2/HibernateExt/tools/
>> the new trunk (maintaing history etc.)
>> 
>> Is svn mv the only option ? (not liking that much since it removes the branch too..)
>> 
>> svn cp would give me the exact copy but not retain the revision info afaik.
>> 
>> Anyone remembers how it were done back in 2007 for core and the other modules ?
>> (svn history seem to indicate svn mv were used, but that were fine then because the branches and trunks were copied to corresponding branches and trunks)
>> 
>> /max
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