Dumb SVN question: update between branches

Dmitry Morozovsky marck at rinet.ru
Wed Sep 2 08:41:23 UTC 2009


On Wed, 2 Sep 2009, Aristedes Maniatis wrote:

AM> On 2/09/09 5:41 PM, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote:
AM> > what in this case I should do to have stable/8 (retaining my local
AM> > changes,
AM> > otherwise I'd just blow the whole tree up and re-checkout it). Sure I can
AM> > store
AM> > `svn diff' output, checkout fresh tree and try to apply diff there, but
AM> > this
AM> > way does not seem natural to me.
AM> 
AM> "svn switch" will do what you want. I find it helpful to create a patch as
AM> backup first just in case something goes wrong.

Ah thanks a lot.  I somehow overlooked this simple and straightforward way 
;-)

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Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
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