Question

I have something checked out from http://svnhost/project/tags/0.3. I have made modifications in that directory, and now I’d like to commit them to trunk. How can I switch the commit destination? It seems svn switch will try to checkout trunk if I use it, but I don’t want that because it’d overwrite my changes.

Answer 1

The SVN switch command can be a bit tricky to use, and less straightforward than manually merging your changes into the trunk. I agree with Forsvarir that the simplest solution would be to checkout the trunk, move your tag files into the trunk, and then commit the trunk.

However, here might be some helpful documentation on using the switch command. Generally, a good practice is not to work specifically on a tag:

It may be that you need to make further changes to a release which you have already tagged. The correct way to handle this is to create a new branch from the tag first and commit the branch. Do your Changes on this branch and then create a new tag from this new branch, e.g. Version_1.0.1.

Once you create the branch, you can do a merge command.