Question

I have checked out a specific Subversion branch of my app. Call it ‘1.0’. I have been working on some changes, added some new files, etc. but haven’t committed the changes yet. However, I don’t want to commit the changes to the ‘1.0’ branch. Instead, I want to commit my changes to a new ‘1.1’ branch.

As far as I can see I will need to first check out a fresh copy of the ‘1.0’ branch, then create a new Subversion branch called ‘1.1’ and then manually copy my pending changes over before committing.

Is there an easier way to do this?

Answer 1

You can remote-create a branch, then switch to the new branch and commit the changes.

$ cd /path/to/working
$ svn copy svn://my/repos/trunk svn://my/repos/branches/1.1 -m "Created branch 1.1"
$ svn switch svn://my/repos/branches/1.1
$ svn commit -m "Your message"