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Pragmatic Guide to Subversion
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Pragmatic Guide to Subversion

by Mike Mason
November 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
150 pages
2h 55m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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25Switching to a Branch

Once you have created a branch, changes made on the trunk will be isolated from changes made on the branch. To make changes to the branch, you need to have a working copy that is pointing at the branch instead of the trunk.

The easiest way to get a working copy of the branch is to check out a new working copy using the branch URL instead of the usual trunk URL. This leaves you with two working copies on your computer: one for the trunk and one for the branch. Sometimes it’s not desirable to have two working copies, for example when the working copy is large and takes a long time to check out or when you have application servers or databases configured to point to the working copy.

The switch command tells Subversion ...

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