Merging a branch back into the trunk with Subversion
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I’m just getting the hang of using Subversion for version control and the workflow is starting to gel. One issue I came against yesterday was merging a branch back into the trunk. The process is a bit interesting.
1. Copy your trunk to a branch svn copy http://path.com/to/trunk http://path.com/to/branch/example 2. Switch your working copy to the branch 3. Check your URL with svn info 4. Make changes to code 5. Commit back to branch svn ci -m "made my changes to branch example" 5. Switch your working copy back to TRUNK 6. Merge the branch with the trunk on your working copy svn merge http://path.com/to/trunk http://path.com/to/branch/example . 7. This only changes the working copy, now you need to commit your working copy to trunk svn ci -m "Merged branch example into trunk"