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I did a checkout from my trunk to a local DIR and made lots of local changes there. Now I don’t want to commit it back to the trunk, but I’d rather make a branch from this local version. Is that possible?
Can I just copy the trunk to a branch, and then cd DIR and svn switch to the branch?
UPDATE: Thanks for the answers, it worked! To summarize the steps:
cd DIRsvn copy . new-branch-URLsvn switch new-branch-URL .(note the dots)
According to its command line help svn copy can copy from a directory to a repository URL. So you should be able to copy your working copy to the branch, e.g.: