Question

I committed to a Tag rather than the working Branch copy. Is there a way to copy my Tag over to the Branch so I can commit it to the SVN and make it the de facto copy and stop committing updates to the Tag?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Yes. Tags and branches are exactly the same thing in SVN. A tag is just conventionally in tags, and is supposed to be read-only, whereas a branch is conventionally in branches and is read-write.

svn copy http://your.server.com/repo/tags/yourtag http://your.server.com/repo/branches/yournewbranch

If the branch already exists, then just merge the commits you did to the tag to the working copy (pointing to the branch):

svn merge http://your.server.com/repo/tags/yourtag@150 \
          http://your.server.com/repo/tags/yourtag@212 \
          my-working-copy-pointing-to-the-branch

All this is well explained in the SVN book