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Branching in Subversion is very simple. In the simplest form, creating a new branch requires you to run the command against the remote repository's URLs. For example, let's create a new branch out of the mainline trunk: svn copy https://svn.example.com/svn/MyRepo/MyProject/trunk https://svn.example...

When you interact with the remote central repository using your private local workspace -- the working copy -- you can use repository-relative URL instead of direct URL to URL copy to create a new branch: svn copy "^/MyProject/trunk" "^/MyProject/branches/MyNewBranch" -m "C...

An existing working copy can be quickly transformed to reflect the contents of a different branch in the same repository. For example, you might have a working copy of the trunk and now need to work on a development branch. Instead of checking out a completely new working copy (which can waste a l...

"Tags" are a type of label that can be applied to a repository at a certain point in time. They are frequently used to give human-readable names to important milestones so that they can be easily accessed later (for example, "version-1.2"). Creating a tag is exactly the same as...

Just run: svn delete https://svn.example.com/svn/MyRepo/MyProject/branches/MyNewBranch -m "Deleting no longer needed MyNewBranch" Or, using the short URL: svn delete ^/branches/MyNewBranch -m "Deleting no longer needed MyNewBranch" In Windows, you need to use ^^ You ...