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There are two different ways to make a branch (see [http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.branchmerge.using.html Branching and Merging]):
* remote copying to the URL
* local copying to the snapshot

Remote copying is simpler but suitable only when branching the complete tree, for example branching trunk to branches/<branch_name>:
<pre>
svn copy https://sdcc.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/sdcc/trunk https://sdcc.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/sdcc/branches/<branch_name> -m "Creating branch <branch_name>."
</pre>
In this case branches/<branch_name> will include everything that is in trunk: directories sdcc, sdcc-build, sdcc-cf, sdcc-extra, sdcc-web, ...

Usually we want to create branch of just the sdcc directory: branches/<branch_name>/sdcc. This can be accomplished by copying to the local snapshot:

* create branches directory under the same parent as sdcc and cd into it:
<pre>
mkdir branches
cd branches
</pre>
* start the branches checkout:
<pre>
svn checkout https://sdcc.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/sdcc/branches .
</pre>
* abort the checkout after some files are checkouted by pressing ^C
* create the <branch_name> directory and add it to the source control:
<pre>
mkdir <branch_name>
svn add <branch_name>
</pre>
* svn copy the sdcc directory to branches/<branch_name>/sdcc
<pre>
svn copy ../sdcc <branch_name>/sdcc
</pre>
* commit the branch:
<pre>
svn commit <branch_name>
</pre>
* voila, the branch is created!

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