Question

I just started working on some changes against trunk on an SVN repo, thinking they would be somewhat small. Now, I actually am beginning to realize that I probably should have just started a new branch instead. Rather than making a branch, and then moving each individual piece into it, is there any way to make a new branch and then commit the changes in my working copy to it?

Answer 1

1. make a new branch from the place where you started developing
2. switch to the newly created branch
3. commit the local changes (will commit to the new branch)

DO NOT MAKE ANY CHECKOUT

I do it with svn 1.6.5, it works without trouble but if you are really paranoid you could do following:

1. create a patch from current working copy
2. create a branch
3. switch to it
4. apply the patch
5. commit