Question

I am using tortoise-svn as my source control. I am new to SVN and tortoise-svn, and I have been trying to figure out how to obtain a read-only copy of a tagged snapshot.

My directory structure looks like:

SVN
  MyProject
    branches
    tags
    trunk
      module1
      module2

(Currently the ‘branches’ and ‘tags’ folders are empty.)

I created a tagged snapshot of module2 by right-clicking on module2, selecting tortoisesvn >> branch/tag, as described here: http://tortoisesvn.net/docs/release/TortoiseSVN_en/tsvn-dug-branchtag.html

I named this tagged snapshot ‘module2–alpha1’

I would now like to download the files in this tagged snapshot, to a local folder. I will not be modifying the files in this local folder. I will simply be using this downloaded snapshot to build an alpha1 version of my website.

How can I do this?

Answer 1

You have two options:

• check out a new working copy of that tag. You then get a fully functional working copy from where you could commit changes
• export that tag to a new folder. By exporting, you don’t get a working copy but only unversioned files and folders. You can not commit changes you make from there.

I guess in your case, exporting is the way to go since that’s more “read only” than checking out.